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Encyclopedia Britannica



ASVINS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 821 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ASVINS , in Hindu
mythology
 , twin deities of
light
 . After
Indra
 , Agni and
Soma
 , they are the most prominent divinities in the Rig-Veda, and have more than fifty entire hymns addressed to them. Their exact attributes are obscure. They appear to be the spirits of
dawn
 , the earliest bringers of
light
  in the morning sky; they hasten on in the clouds before
Dawn
  and prepare the way for her. In some hymns they are called sons of the sun; in others, children of the sky; in others, offspring of the ocean. They are youngest of the gods,
bright
  lords of lustre, honey-hued. They are inseparable. The
sole
  purpose of one hymn is to compare them with different twin objects, such as eyes, hands, feet and wings. They have a common wife, Surya. They are physicians, protectors of the weak. and old, especially of elderly unmarried
women
 . They are the friends of. lovers, and bless marriages and make them fruitful.
See A. A. Macdonell, Vedic
Mythology
  (Strassburg, 1897).


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