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Aswini

In Hinduism the Aswini are the celestial charioteers, Vedic gods symbolising the shining of surise and sunset. They can be compared with the twins Castor and Pollux of the Greco-Roman mythology. To each one of them is assigned the number 7 and to the pair the number 14.

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