He uses the goad, which, however, according to Bergaigne, is the thunderbolt! So, too, the cows that P[=u]shan is described as guiding have been interpreted as clouds or 'dawns.' But they may be taken without 'interpretation' as real cows.[32] P[=u]shan drives the cows, he is armed with a goad, and eats mush; bucolic throughout, yet a sun-god.

It is on these lines that his finding-qualities are to be interpreted.

He finds lost cattle,[33] a proper business for such a god; but Bergaigne will see in this a transfer from P[=u]shan's finding of rain and of _soma_.[34] P[=u]shan, too, directs the furrow[35] Together with Vishnu and Bhaga this god is invoked at sacrifices, (a fact that says little against or for his original sun-ship),[36] and he is intimately connected with Indra.

His sister is his mistress, and his mother is his wife (Dawn and Night ?) according to the meagre accounts given in VI.55.

4-5.[37] As a god of increase he is invoked in the marriage-rite, X.85.