Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s3.t1.19

v2.c27.s3.t1.19

Festivals in the month Jeth : May-June.—On the 2nd of Jeth, when the sun is in the zenith, the Rajput ladies commemorate the birth of the sea-born goddess Rambha, the queen of the naiads or Apsaras,² whose birth, like that of Venus, was from the froth of the waters; and [579] hence the Rajput bards designate all the fair messengers of heaven by the name of Apsaras, who summon the ‘chosen’ from the field of battle, and convey him to the ‘mansion of the sun.’³