[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.397 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.397 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.397 - **Language:** English ### [c5.397](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.397) In the \*Rig-veda\* it is said that when “Chyavana had grown old and had been forsaken, the Aswins divested him of his decrepit body, prolonged his life, and restored him to youth, making him acceptable to his wife, and the husband of maidens.” This story is thus amplified in the \*Satapatha Brāhmana\* :—The sage Chyavana assumed a shrivelled form and lay as if abandoned. The sons of Saryāta, a descendant of Manu, found this body, and pelted it with clods. Chyavana was greatly incensed, and to appease him Saryāta yoked his chariot, and taking with him his daughter Su-kanyā, presented her to Chyavana. The Aswins endeavoured to seduce her, but she remained faithful to her shrivelled husband, and under his direction she taunted them with being incomplete and imperfect, and consented to tell them in what respect they were deficient, if they would make her husband young again. They directed that he should bathe in a certain pond, and having done so, he came forth with the age that he desired. She then informed them that they were imperfect because they were excluded from a sacrifice the other gods were performing. - [Previous: c5.396](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.396) - [Next: c5.398](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.398) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) ## Cites (2) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.397](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.397) · Pramāṇa