Vedic Mythology c5.s8.t1.6

c5.s8.t1.6

The same verb *takṣ*, to fashion, is generally used with reference to the manual skill of the Ṛbhus as to that of Tvaṣṭṛ. The five great feats of dexterity by which they became gods, are spoken of with pretty uniform frequency and are all or most of them mentioned in nearly every hymn dedicated to their praise. They fashioned or made a car (1, 111¹. 161³; 4, 33⁸. 36²), which is horseless, reinless, three-wheeled, and traverses space (4, 36¹). The car which goes round they fashioned for the Aśvins (1, 20³. 161⁶; 10, 39¹²). When in a verse (4, 34⁹) which enumerates each of their feats with a single word, they are said to have fashioned the Aśvins themselves, this appears to be only a loose way of referring to the same exploit.