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n. - (literally `possessing horses' in Sanskrit) in Hinduism the twin chariot warriors conveying Surya.

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  • The Asvins, the "Horsemen" or fleet outriders of the dawn, are the first rays of sunrise, "Lords of Lustre."
  • Their offspring were the Asvins, who are more or less analogous in their helpful character to Castor and Pollux.
  • 'To my mind,' says our author, 'there is no chapter in mythology in which we can so clearly read the transition of an auroral myth of the Veda into an epic chapter of Greece as...
  • However, Night in Mr. Max Muller's system 'has just got to be' Dawn, a position proved thus: 'Yaska makes this clear by saying that the time of the Asvins, sons of...
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