Aśvins
deity figure · 5 works · 57 mentions · 182 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Aśvins the group
Nāsatyas · the two Aśvins · the Aśvins · Dasras · Aśvin · Vājinīvasū · Asvins · Aśvinau · Aśvins garlanded with lotus-wreaths · Aśvinā
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe Aśvins6 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
I press out hymns to the two Nāsatyas as one strews the sacred grass, as wind drives the cloud.
Aśvinā“the Aśvins”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
With the radiance of surā as it is poured, with the brilliance of sweet drink, may both the Aśvins, wreathed in lotus, sprinkle me.
in the texts
Rigveda
Twin horsemen-gods of swift chariot, invoked for aid, wealth, and nearness to the sacrificer.
Arouse the two who yoke their chariot at dawn — let the Aśvins come hither to drink of this Soma.
There is no far distance for you, wherever you go by chariot — O Aśvins, the Soma-presser's house is not remote to you.
O Aśvins, lords of beauty with swift hands, lords of sacrificial boons, who enjoy much — find pleasure in these offerings.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Twin healing deities invoked to partake of a mixed healing drink.
May the two Aśvins, assuming a form by their magic power, together clothed, drink this mixed drink.
The Deliverer from distress, the bull of the sacrificial lords, the one who blazes foremost at rites — I call upon the Son of the Waters, the two Aśvins, through insight;
Knowing your secret name, O Aśvins — sweet as the honey of the bee;
Sāmaveda
The divine twin horsemen, praised alongside Dawn and described drinking the pressed soma.
This soma has been pressed — the Maruts drink of it, and likewise the self-ruling Aśvins.
This Dawn, unprecedented, the dear one of the sky, shines forth — I praise the two lovely Aśvins greatly.
The praiser adorns with his hymns your most beloved chariot, O Aśvins — the bull-like one, wealth-carrying.
Viṣṇu Smṛti
The twin Vedic deities associated with the month of Āśvina
By giving clarified butter to Brāhmaṇas every day for the entire month of *Āśvina* (आश्विन), and having pleased the Aśvins, he becomes endowed with beauty.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Twin Vedic gods invoked in a simile comparing Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa entering the forest.
"Fortunate indeed are you, O charioteer, for you have seen my two sons entering the forest's edge, like the twin Aśvins entering Mandara.