Mythologie hindoue, védique et Purānic . gle, le Vahan de Vishnu. Bien qu'il ne soit pas strictement divin, il apparaît fréquemment dans Vishnus exploits, et, étant adoré avec son seigneur, il est nécessaire de donner une description de sa naissance et de ses actes. Quand les fils de Dakshas refusaient aux gens du monde, il produisit soixante filles, dont treize d'entre elles s'engouent vers le sauge de Kasiapa, dont deux se sont mises en place dans le cadre de Garuda. Vinata borehim deux fils célébrés, Garuda et Aruna : le théréformateur, aussi appelé Superna, était le roi des tribus fianées, et l'ennemi rémorséeux de la race du ser-dent. 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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