Aśvins
group · 2 works · 10 mentions · 18 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Aśvins the deity
the two Aśvins · Nāsatyas · the Aśvins · the two healers · you two wreathed with lotuses
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The twin horsemen deities, credited with fashioning a ritual object and invoked at dawn.
With that sweet whip which the Aśvins, the gods, fashioned at the beginning — with that we entwine thee, suffused with sweetness, into thy husband's love.
At dawn we invoke Agni, at dawn Indra, at dawn Mitra and Varuṇa, at dawn the Aśvins;
Let the two Aśvins bind themselves together, conquering for my kingdom, hurling the missile against enemies.
Rigveda
The twin horsemen gods, addressed directly in the final hymn of the window and elsewhere as soma-drinkers.
For whose pressed soma-stalk do the Aśvins, Indra, and Agni drink — entering with their mind?
O Vājas, O Ṛbhukṣan, O Indra, O Nāsatyas — bring together for us that wealth, bring together the horse for the peoples, greatly acclaimed for the winning of bounty.
Of which one's chariot, with swift horses, do they speak — which one did the daughter of the Sun choose?