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)
with those by which you aided the young man's swift horse;
Aśvinā“the Aśvins”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Radiance upon your teeth, O fair one;
in the texts
Rigveda
Twin horsemen-gods of swift chariot, invoked for aid, wealth, and nearness to the sacrificer.
O Aśvins, come on this horse-rich path with your mighty power;
For your chariot, O wondrous immortal Aśvins, is yoked by the same yoking;
You have set the wheel of your chariot upon the head of the inviolable cow;
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.
I know indeed your secret name, O conquering, unconquered pair;
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.
Where are you, O Aśvins?
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.