Mitologia indù, Vedica e Purānic . Gle, il Vahan di Vishnu. Anche se non strettamente divino, appare spesso in Vishnus exploit, e, essendo adorato insieme al suo signore, è necessario dare una descrizione della sua nascita e dei suoi atti. Quando i figli di Dakshas si rifiutarono di far parte del mondo, produsse sessanta figlie, tredici delle quali pagarono a Kasyapa il saggio; di queste due si intoprominarono in connessione con Garuda. Vinata borehim due celebri figli, Garuda e Aruna : il teformer, chiamato anche Superna, era il re delle tribù fea-hered, e il nemico insensato della corsa dei serpenti. A.

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Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purānic . gle, the Vahan of Vishnu. Though not strict-ly divine, he appears frequently in Vishnus exploits, and, being worshipped together with his lord, it isnecessary to give some description of his birth anddeeds. When Dakshas sons refused to people the world, he produced sixty daughters, thirteen of whom hegave to Kasyapa the sage ; of these, two come intoprominence in connection with Garuda. Vinata borehim two celebrated sons, Garuda and Aruna : theformer, also called Superna, was the king of the fea-thered tribes, and the remorseless enemy of the ser-pent race. Aruna became famous as the charioteerof the Sun. The progeny of Kadru (the othersister) were a^thousand powerful many-headed snakes, 464 THE INFERIOR DEITIES. ©f immeasurable might, subject to Garuda.* Themother of Garuda is said to have laid an egg ; henceher son assumed a bird-like form. Another legend makes Garuda the son of Kas-yapa and Diti. This all-prolific dame laid an egg, which, it was predicted, would yield her a deliverer. from some great evil. After the lapse of five hundredyears, Garuda sprang from the egg, flew to Indrasabode, extinguished the fire that surrounded it, conquered its guards, and bore off the amrita, whichenabled him to liberate his captive mother. A fewdrops of the immortal beverage falling on some Kusa * Vishnu Purana, p. 119. GARUDA. 465 grass, it became eternally consecrated ; and the ser-pents greedily licking it, so lacerated their tongueswith the sharp grass, that they have ever since remain-ed forked. But the boon of immortality was ensuredto them by their partaking of the amrita. * Assoon as Garuda was born, his body expanded till ittouched the sky; the other animals were terrified.His eyes were like the lightning. The mountains weredriven away with the wind caused by the flappingof his wings. The rays which issued from his bodyset the four quarters of the world on fire ; the affright-ed gods imagining that Garuda must be an incarna-tion of

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