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USAS (from the root vas, to shine, and cognate to Latin Aurora and Greek 'Hws,)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 808 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
USAS (from the root vas, to shine, and cognate to Latin Aurora and Greek 'Hws,) in
Hindu
 
mythology
 , the goddess of
dawn
 . She is celebrated in some twenty hymns of the Rig Veda, and is the most graceful creation of Vedic
poetry
 . She is borne on a shining car
drawn
  by ruddy cows or bulls. She is the daughter of the sky and the sun is her
lover
 . She is described as " rising resplendent as from a bath, showing her charms she comes with
light
  . . . ever shortening the ages of men she shines forth . . . she reveals the paths of men and bestows new
life
  . . . she opens the doors of darkness as the cows their stalls." Scarcely the name of the goddess survives to-day, so completely was she associated with the Vedism
long
  dead and gone.
See A. A. Macdonell, Vedic
Mythology
  (Strassburg, 1897).


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