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English 422About the BookThis work is an outcome of the author's research at the University of Bombay. It is an analytical critical and comprehensive study of the mythology of the Asvins in Indian tradition. The book covers a large span of literature-from Rg-veda to Iconographical texts. Also it contains exhaustive translations of the Asvin hymns from the Vedic samhitas and the Mahabharata. The other text related to Asvins has been presented with critical notes.The present work analise maximum references of Asvins from the ocean of Indian literature and mythology.About the AuthorDr. K.P. Jog (M.A. Ph.D., Bombay) is a renowned Vedic Scholar. He is a retired Professor of Vedic Sanskrit and General Editor of Sanskrit Dictionary Project of Deccan College, Pune. A National lecturer in Sanskrit for the year 1984-85 he was Director of Mm. P.V. Kane Research Institute of the Asiatic Society of Bombay.His voluminous translation of Suresvaras Vartika on Brhadaranyakopanisad act is the mile-stone in Upanisadic studies.PrefaceProf. H.D. Velankar. who taught us. M.A. students. the seventh Mandala of the Rgveda, awakened in me a wish that I worked under him as a research student of the Veda. When I approached him with a request to accept me as a Ph.D. student. he very kindly accepted to initiate me in Vedic studies. The following is nothing else than the result of his Asvin-like impulse which I have had the rare luck of receiving from him during the last few year. I wonder if I should be able some day to repay the unreadable debt I owe him on this account.Prof. RP. Kangle, my teacher at the Elphinstone College had also encouraged me in my work from time to time. He has obliged me by giving