Ushas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Ushas
From the Sanskrit word uṣas
Example Sentences
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Once Indra, acting with the brutality of the Homeric Ares, charged against the car of Ushas and overthrew it.***
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
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
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
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
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