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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)[reply]

Dual or plural

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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:

  • 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»

kess (talk) 04:23, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Ushas/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

TALK:USHAS/COMMENTS USHAS IS THE GODESS,DAUGHTER OF SKY!

Last edited at 10:10, 6 September 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 09:44, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Removed unexplained "dubious" template

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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:

... English goddess [[Ēostre]] (OE: ēastre), whose name is probably the root of the modern English word "[[Easter]]."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mallory |first1=J.P. |last2=Adams |first2=D.Q. |title=The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-0-19-929668-2 |page=432}}</ref>{{dubious|date=April 2020}}

107.77.165.10 (talk) 07:03, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]