The 'three dawns' occasionally referred to are, as we have shown elsewhere,[98] the three dawn-lights, white, red, and yellow, as they are seen by both the Vedic poet and the Florentine.
Dawn becomes common and trite after awhile, as do all the gods, and is invoked more to give than to please.

'Wake us,' cries a later poet, 'Wake us to wealth, O Dawn; give to us, give to us; wake up, lest the sun burn thee with his light'-- a passage (V.79) which has caused much learned nonsense to be written on the inimical relations of Sun and Dawn as portrayed here.

The dull idea is that Dawn is lazy, and had better get up before S[=u]rya catches her asleep.

The poet is not in the least worried because his image does not express a suitable relationship between the dawn and the sun, nor need others be disturbed at it.

The hymn is late, and only important in showing the new carelessness as regards the old gods.[99] Some other traits appear in VII.75.1 ff., where Dawn is 'queen of the world,' and banishes the _druhs_, or evil spirit.