Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s4.t2.66
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s4.t2.66
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v2.c27.s4.t2.66
The emblem of Vishnu is Garuda, or the eagle,² and the Sun-god both of the Egyptians and Hindus is typified with the bird’s head. Aruna (the dawn), brother of Garuda, is classically styled the charioteer of Vishnu, whose two sons, Sampati and Jatayu, attempting in imitation of their father to reach the sun, the wings of the former were burnt and he fell to the earth: of this the Greeks may have made their fable of Icarus.³