5: "Red birds flew round you as S[=u]ry[=a] stepped upon your chariot"; so that it is quite impossible, in accordance with the poets themselves, to limit the Acvins to the twilight.

They are a variegated growth from a black and white seed.

The chief function of the Acvins, as originally conceived, was the finding and restoring of vanished light.

Hence they are invoked as finders and aid-gods in general (the myths are given in Myriantheus).
Some very amusing and some silly legends have been collected and told by the Vedic poets in regard to the preservation and resuscitating power of the Acvins--how an old man was rejuvenated by them (this is also done by the three Ribhus, master-workmen of the gods); how brides are provided by them; how they rescued Bhujyu and others from the dangers of the deep (as in the classical legends); how they replaced a woman's leg with an iron one; restored a saint's eye-sight; drew a seer out of a well, etc, etc.

Many scholars follow Bergaigne in imagining all these miracles to be anthropomorphized forms of solar phenomena, the healing of the blind representing the bringing out of the sun from darkness, etc.