[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c4.530 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.530 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c4.530 - **Language:** English ### [c4.530](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.530) 2) Differences with mother. Vinatā and Kadrū were two wives of Kaśyapa prajāpati. Garuḍa was born as Vinatā’s son and numerous serpents like Ananta, Vāsuki, Takṣaka, Kārkkoṭaka were sons of Kadrū. Once a controversy developed between Vinatā and Kadrū, the latter saying that there were a few black hairs on the tail of Airāvata and the former denying it. It was agreed that she who proved wrong in the argument would become the slave of the other. To prove herself to be right Kadrū, the same night, asked her sons to go and stay suspended in the hairs of Airāvata’s tail. Some of the sons agreed to do so, while her other (prominent) sons like Ananta expressed their disinclination to do such an unethical act. Kadrū cursed these disobedient children of hers to die at the serpent yajña of Janamejaya, whereupon Ananta and his supporters departed in sorrow. (M.B., Ādi Parva, Chapter 65). - [Previous: c4.529](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.529) - [Next: c4.531](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.531) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.65) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.530](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.530) · Pramāṇa