![]() The heat was so intense that it started destroying all living beings. The epic narrates that in another tale that Surya began burning intensely angered by the attacks of Rahu (Rahu swallowing Surya is described to cause solar eclipses in Hindu mythology). Accordingly, Vinata waited, and later the fully developed mighty eagle, her second born named Garuda (vehicle of Vishnu) was born. He was bestowed to be the charioteer to Surya by his father, Prajapati Kasyapa. Having cursed his mother, Aruna disappeared. Enraged by the haste of his mother, he cursed her that she will become the slave of Kadru for 500 years, when the second egg will break and his son will redeem her. Since Aruna was born prematurely, his body was partially developed. Vinata eager for her sons, broke one of the eggs from which emerged the partially formed Aruna. These incubated for five hundred years, upon which Kadru broke the eggs open and out came her 1,000 sons. Later, Kadru gave birth to one thousand eggs, while Vinata gave birth to two eggs. Kashyapa blessed them, and then went away to a forest. Kadru asked for one thousand 'Dirghadeha' (meaning long bodied) Nāga (serpent) sons, while Vinata wanted only two yet extremely strong 'Divyadeha' (meaning emitting golden aura from body). According to this version, Kashyapa Prajapati's two wives Vinata and Kadru wanted to have children. In the epic Mahabharata, he was born prematurely and partially developed from an egg. Aruna is found in different, inconsistent Indian legends.
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