Indian Philosophy v1.c8.s2.76
Indian Philosophy v1.c8.s2.76
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v1.c8.s2.76
The Aśvins are invoked in about fifty hymns and in parts of many others.¹ They are inseparable twins, the bright lords of brilliance and lustre, strong and agile and fleet as eagles. They are the children of Heaven, and the Dawn is their sister. It is supposed that the phenomenon of twilight is their material basis. That is why we have two Aśvins corresponding to the dawn and the dusk. They gradually become the physicians of gods and men, wonder-workers, protectors of conjugal love and life and the deliverers of the oppressed from all kinds of suffering.