Draped in rose-hued veils, like a young bride her mother has arrayed for her wedding- day, Ushas goes toward the east with light steps. She opens the celestial gates, then upon her car drawn by red cows, bow and arrow in hand, she traverses the sky. As she climbs to the horizon the darkness flees before her. And presently, like a young wife who displays her beauty to the marvelling eyes of her bridegroom, she appears to the eyes of mortals, radiant and unveiled. Ushas makes ready the way for her farther and lord. She leads the horses of his car; but, a victim to her double love, she will perish at the hands of him who is both her lover and her farther; she will end devoured by the rays of the Sun.