Nāsatya
Hindu · deity · vedic · deity
Elder of the twin Aśvinī Kumāras; Vedic divine physician. With his twin Dasra, the Aśvins are healers of the sick, restorers of youth, and dawn-associated deities. Named in the 14th-c. BCE Mitanni-Hittite Mitra-Varuna-Indra-Nasatya treaty (the four gods invoked as guarantors), confirming the Indo-Iranian antiquity of the pair. Father of Nakula by Mādrī.
Parentage
Children
Domains
- healing medicine
- dawn and twilight
Powers
- Holds the Madhuvidya, the honey-doctrine of life-restoring medicine learned from Dadhyañc
- Heals the sick and cures the incurable
- Restores youth and revives the dying
Epithets
- नासत्य
- दस्र
- अश्विन्