Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.s3.64

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6. Double-headed Eagle—It is found at Sirkap, Taxila in India, but Coomaraswamy has mentioned it as a motif of Hittite art and probably earlier. In the great legend of *Suparṇī* and *Kadrū*, we find the conception of double-headed *Aditi* who was the same as *Suparṇī*, i. e. eagle. In the Mahābhārata we read of Bhāruṇḍa birds with a double head tagged to a single body (*Ekodara Pṛthag-grīva*, Bhīṣma parva 8. II). [Fig. 29].