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.
At dawn we invoke Agni, at dawn Indra, at dawn Mitra and Varuṇa, at dawn the Aśvins;
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.
may the Aśvins grant me shelter on both sides.
Rigveda
The twin horsemen gods, addressed directly in the final hymn of the window and elsewhere as soma-drinkers.
By what shall you come to us when invoked, O Aśvins?
Your wide chariot goes round the sky, as it turns toward you from the ocean;
For you travel swiftly through many days, like Indra's power in the contest that goes about;