Talk:Ushas

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 20:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Dual or plural
The article says that the name is used in plural, rather than dual which certain sources infer. I have not (yet) checked any of the Vedic or post-Vedic hymns. This is what two dictionaries have to say:

kess (talk) 04:23, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Apte’s The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary mentions: «उषस् f. [...] -3 The deity that presides over the morning and evening twilights (used in dual); उषसौ or उषासौ.»
 * Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English dictionary mentions: «Ushás, ás, f. (nom. pl. ushā́sas and ushásas ; instr. pl. ushádbhis [...]) morning light, dawn, morning (personified as the daughter of heaven and sister of the Ādityas and the night) [...]; (ushā́sau, ˚ā́sā, and ˚ásā), f. du. night and morning»

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Substituted at 09:44, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Removed unexplained "dubious" template
Early in the article, someone marked the philological relation between Ēostre (old goddess) and Easter (springtime Christian celebration of the resurrection). The doubter left no "|reason=" in the template, and no discussion on this talk page. I removed it, since the Venerable Bede directly stated the connection between the two names.

The text leading up to the "dubious" template, now removed, is appended below:



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