the orb of the sun personified and adored by a sect of Hindoos as a god. He seems to be the same divinity with the Phcebus 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 Arun, 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 Ahaic Ret-twelve epithets or titles, which denote his distinct powers in each of the twelve months; and he is believed to have defended frequently from his car in 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 Aśvinau or Aśvinincamaran, in the dual, should be considered as twin-brothers, and painted like Castor and Pollux; but they have each the character of Æculapius among the gods, and are believed to have been born of a nymph, who, in the form of a mare, was impregnated with funbeams.