Editing Garuda (section)

===Beliefs===
[[File:Garuda image facing Chennakeshava temple at Belur with gopura (entrance tower) in the background.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0 |left|Garuda is found in Vishnu temples; Above: in Belur, India.]]
Garuda's mythology is linked to that of [[Aruṇa|Aruna]], the charioteer of the Hindu sun god [[Surya]]. Both Aruna and Garuda developed from an egg. According to one version related by George Williams, Kashyapa Prajapati's two wives [[Vinata]] and [[Kadru]] wanted to have children, and [[Kashyapa]] granted each of them a boon.<ref name="Williams2008p62"/> Kadru asked for one thousand [[Nāga]] sons, while Vinata asked for just two, but each an equal to all of Kadru's thousand sons. Kashyapa blessed them, and then retreated to a forest to meditate. Later, Kadru gave birth to one thousand eggs, while Vinata gave birth to two eggs. After incubating them for five hundred years, Kadru's eggs hatched and out came her 1,000 sons. Vinata, eager for her own sons, impatiently broke one of her eggs. From this egg emerged the partially formed Aruna, looking radiant and reddish as the morning sun, but not as bright as the midday sun as he was promised to be.<ref name="Williams2008p62">{{cite book|author=George M. Williams|title=Handbook of Hindu Mythology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7LOZfwCDpEC |year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533261-2|pages=62–63}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=India through the ages|url=https://archive.org/details/indiathroughages00mada|last=Gopal|first=Madan|year= 1990| page= [https://archive.org/details/indiathroughages00mada/page/70 70]|editor=K.S. Gautam|publisher=Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India}}</ref> Aruna chided his mother Vinata for her impatience, and warned her to not break open the second egg, cursing her to be a slave until his brother rescued her. Aruna then left to become the charioteer of Surya, the sun god.

[[File:Garuda Wishnu Bali.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Bali]]nese wooden statue of Vishnu riding Garuda, [[Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum]], [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]].]]
Vinata waited, and after many years, the second egg hatched and Garuda was born. After losing a bet to Kadru through trickery, Vinata was forced to become her slave. Garuda later asked his brothers to free his mother from her slavery, to which they demanded Amrita from heaven. Garuda waged a war against gods with his extraordinary might and abilities, and defeated all of them, including [[Indra]]. He then took Indra's nectar vessel and flew back to earth. Vishnu then came to Garuda, and asked him to be his ride, to which he agreed. Indra requested that Garuda not give the [[Amrita]] to the [[Nāga|Nagas]] though, as it would bring great trouble later, so they forged a plan. Upon reaching his brothers Garuda placed the vessel before them, and asked them to first purify themselves before drinking. Meanwhile, [[Jayanta]] (the son of Indra) stole the vessel back. On returning, the nagas were all devoured by Garuda.<ref name="Williams2008p62"/><ref name="K2012">{{cite book|author=Ashok, Banker K|title=Forest of Stories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sQqQQhe5aQC|pages=173–175|access-date=6 March 2013|year= 2012|publisher= Westland|isbn=978-93-81626-37-5}}</ref>

Some myths present Garuda as so massive that he can block out the [[sun]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Mythical Creatures Bible | author = Brenda Rosen | publisher = Godsfield Press | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-4027-6536-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mI0vKhZXJqwC&pg=PA158 | page = 158 | access-date = 16 August 2019 | archive-date = 6 July 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230706210439/https://books.google.com/books?id=mI0vKhZXJqwC&pg=PA158 | url-status = live }}</ref> The text ''[[Garuda Purana]]'' is named after him.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ludo Rocher|title=The Purāṇas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n0-4RJh5FgoC|year=1986|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-02522-5|pages=175–177|access-date=9 January 2018|archive-date=6 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706210440/https://books.google.com/books?id=n0-4RJh5FgoC|url-status=live}}</ref>

Garuda is presented in the Mahabharata as one who eats snake meat, such as the story about him planning to kill and eat Sumukha snake, where [[Indra]] intervenes. Garuda in anger, vaunt about his feats and compares himself to Indra's equal. Vishnu teaches a lesson to Garuda and cured his pride on might.<ref name="Buitenen1973p167">{{cite book|author=Johannes Adrianus Bernardus Buitenen|title=The Mahabharata, Volume 3 (Book 4: The Book of the Virata; Book 5: The Book of the Effort)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wFtXBGNn0aUC&pg=PA167|year=1973|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-84665-1|pages=167–168, 389–393|access-date=7 January 2018|archive-date=6 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706210432/https://books.google.com/books?id=wFtXBGNn0aUC&pg=PA167|url-status=live}}</ref> Garudas are also a race of birds who devour snakes in the epic.<ref name="Buitenen1973p167"/>

The ''[[Suparṇākhyāna]]'', a late [[Vedic period]] poem considered to be among the "earliest traces of epic poetry in India," relates the legend of Garuda, and provides the basis for a later, expanded version which appears within the ''[[Mahabharata|Mahābhārata]]''.<ref name="Winternitz1996">{{cite book|author=Moriz Winternitz|title=A History of Indian Literature, Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRfuJFRV_O8C&pg=PA292|year=1996|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0264-3|pages=291–292|access-date=22 November 2018|archive-date=6 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706210944/https://books.google.com/books?id=JRfuJFRV_O8C&pg=PA292|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Vogel1995">{{cite book|author=Jean Philippe Vogel|title=Indian Serpent-lore: Or, The Nāgas in Hindu Legend and Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=caskYEbIQDoC&pg=PA53|year=1995|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-1071-2|pages=53–54|access-date=22 November 2018|archive-date=6 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706210945/https://books.google.com/books?id=caskYEbIQDoC&pg=PA53|url-status=live}}</ref>