An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s4.168

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Garuḍa, the son of Kaśyapa and Vinatā, the vehicle of Viṣṇu (Kṛṣṇa), or the emblem of his flagstaff. § 11 (Anukram.): I, 2, 365.—§ 27 (Kaśyapa): I, 18, 1092 (son of Kaśyapa and Vinatā).—§ 32b (Kadrū): In the meantime G. came out bursting the egg and ascended the skies. The gods thought that it was Agni, but were undeceived): I, 23, 1239, 1245, 1248.—§ 33 (Āstīkap.): Then the gods and the rṣis praised G. and prevailed upon him to diminish his own energy and splendour: I, 23, 1255.—§ 34 (do.): Bearing his brother Aruṇa on his back G. went from his father's home and arrived at his mother's side on the other shore of the ocean and placed Aruṇa in the east: I, 24, 1262.—§ 36b (Kadrū): G. carried the snakes on his back, but ascended too near to the Sun so that the snakes became scorched by the rays of the Sun: I, 25, 1283.—§ 40 (Āstīkap.): The serpents promised that if G. brought them the amṛta he and his mother should be freed from bondage (I, 27). Having been directed by Vinatā to live upon the Niṣādas (b) but not to injure the brahmans, and being taught by her how to know who is a brahman, he set out, and, having come to the Niṣādas, he raised a great quantity of dust, and opened his mouth; there the Niṣādas entered by thousands, being blinded by the dust, and were devoured (I, 28). A brahman who, with his wife of the Niṣāda caste, entered the throat of G., and began to burn him, was recognized and relieved with his wife by G. (I, 29): I, 28, 1320, (1327); 29, (1343), 1344.—§ 41 (do.): As G.'s hunger was not appeased Kaśyapa told him of the elephant Supratīka (b) and the tortoise Vibhāvasu: I, 29, (1348).—§ 42 (do.): Then Kaśyapa blessed G.: I, 29, 1371.—§ 43 (do.): G. then seized the elephant and the tortoise and came to the tīrtha Alamha (? Nil. and BR., "without reposing") (b). A banyan-tree invited him to sit on one of its huge branches, but the branch broke (I, 29). G. caught the branch with his beak, and perceiving Vālakhilyas suspended therefrom with their head downwards he continued to fly with the branch, the elephant, and the tortoise, fearing to kill the Vālakhilyas if he should throw away the branch. The Vālakhilyas therefore gave him the name Garuḍa (etymology: *guruṃ bhāram samāsādyoddhṛnaḥ*, v. 1390). On Gandhamādana he saw Kaśyapa engaged in ascetic devotions. Kaśyapa propitiated the Vālakhilyas (c) for him, then they abandoned the bough and went to Himavat to practise ascetic penances. According to the advice of Kaśyapa G. flew away for