Ushas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Ushas
From the Sanskrit word uṣas
Example Sentences
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The chief of these deities were Agni, the fire; Prithivi, the earth; Ushas, the dawn; Mitra, or Surya, the sun; Indra, the sky; Maruts, the storm-winds; and Varuna, the All-Surrounder.
From Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland by John Thackray Bunce
Ushas, dawn, again in the later Sanskrit is neuter.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
But in this race Ushas was drawn by red cows; "hence after the coming of dawn there is a reddish colour".
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
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 Alexander F. Chamberlain
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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