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Ushas

American  
[oosh-uhs, oo-shahs] / ˈʊʃ əs, ʊˈʃɑs /
Also Usha

noun

  1. Dawn, a Vedic deity, daughter of Sky and sister of Night.


Ushas British  
/ ˈuːʃəs /

noun

  1. the Hindu goddess of the dawn

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Ushas

From the Sanskrit word uṣas

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Ushas, Eos, Aurora, is the daughter of heaven, and one story of the birth is contained in the Maori myth of Papa and Rangi.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain

Ushas, on the other hand, while etymologically corresponding to Aurora, Eos, is a specially Indian development, as Eos has no cult.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

I immediately received a communication from Ushas to the effect that it compelled some words of reply from the sisterhood, and a few days since I received them. 

From Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches by Laurence Oliphant

His daughter Ushas is the dawn, and in declaring that he fell in love with her, it is only meant that when the sun rises, it follows the dawn.

From Myth and Science An Essay by Tito Vignoli

Such is the Vedic Ushas, but the Brahmanas, as usual, manage either to retain or to revive and introduce the old crude element of myth.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

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