Ushas

American  

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

Also Usha

noun

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

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Ushas British  

/ ˈuːʃəs /

noun

1. the Hindu goddess of the dawn

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Etymology

Origin of Ushas

From the Sanskrit word uṣas

Example Sentences

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 Vignoli, Tito

Another, and to modern ideas much more poetical personified power, often mentioned in the Vedas, is Ushas, or the dawn.

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

Ushas used a stronger expression here, but out of consideration for my old mahatma friends, I suppress it. p.

From Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches by Oliphant, Laurence

In Sanskrit mythology Ushas, "Dawn," is daughter of Heaven, and poetically she is represented as "a young wife awakening her children and giving them new strength for the toils of the new day."

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 Chamberlain, Alexander F.

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 Lang, Andrew