Consider the following pairs:

Ida – goddess of victory of light over darkness

Nirrti – goddess of misfortune, decay and death

Aditi – personification of the infinite

Which of the pairs given above is/are matched correctly?

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Vrtra, or the goddess Nirrti, the personification of decay, destruction and death.
Ida represents the sacrificial food or libations
Hotra and Svaha are personifications of the ritual invocations
Aditi represents freedom and infinity that contains everything else including the gods. Her twelve sons, collectively called the Adityas, represent the months of the solar years and are invoked to bestow benefits on mankind
Ushas, the rosy goddess of the dawn, signifies the victory of light over darkness and that of life over death.
Other Vedic goddesses include (i) Prithvi, the personification of Earth; (ii) Diti, the mother of the Daityas; (iii) Aranyani, the elusive goddess of forests and wild creatures; (iv) Vac (Speech); (v) Puramdhi and Dhisana, both representing abundance; (vi) Raka and Sinivali, beneficent goddesses; (vii) lla, the ‘mother of the cattle herds; and (viii) Nirrti, goddess of misfortune, decay and death.

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Vrtra, or the goddess Nirrti, the personification of decay, destruction and death.
Ida represents the sacrificial food or libations
Hotra and Svaha are personifications of the ritual invocations
Aditi represents freedom and infinity that contains everything else including the gods. Her twelve sons, collectively called the Adityas, represent the months of the solar years and are invoked to bestow benefits on mankind
Ushas, the rosy goddess of the dawn, signifies the victory of light over darkness and that of life over death.
Other Vedic goddesses include (i) Prithvi, the personification of Earth; (ii) Diti, the mother of the Daityas; (iii) Aranyani, the elusive goddess of forests and wild creatures; (iv) Vac (Speech); (v) Puramdhi and Dhisana, both representing abundance; (vi) Raka and Sinivali, beneficent goddesses; (vii) lla, the ‘mother of the cattle herds; and (viii) Nirrti, goddess of misfortune, decay and death.

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