orb of the sun personified and adored by a sect of Hindoos as a god. He seems to be the same divinity with the Phœbus of Greece and Rome; and the sect who pay him particular adoration are called Sauras. Their poets and painters describe his car as drawn by seven green horses, preceded by Arum or the Dawn, who acts as his charioteer, and followed by thousands of genii worshipping him and modulating his praises. He has a multitude of names, and among them twelve epithets or titles, which denote his different powers in each of the twelve months; and he is believed to have descended frequently from his car in a human shape, and to have left a race on earth, who are equally renowned in the Indian stories with the Heliadai of Greece: it is very singular, that his two sons called Avisinou or Avisinumarou, in the dual, should be considered as twin-brothers, and painted like Castor and Pollux; but they have each the character of Aesculapius among the gods, and are believed to have been born of a nymph, who, in the form of a mare, was impregnated with sun-beams.