Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . herewith fierce Ravans son, renownedFor magic arts, your limbs had arrows fixed in every limbWere mighty snakes, transformed by race, they live beneathThe earth, and slay with venomed teeth. Garuda is represented in pictures and sculpture in variousways. Sometimes he has the head and wings of a bird, with ahuman body ; sometimes he has a birds claws ; and at othershe has a human face, and the body of a bird. JATAYUS AND SAMPATI. Garuda had two sons, named Jatayus and Sampati, who alsoassisted Rama. As he, Lakshman, and Sati reac
Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . herewith fierce Ravans son, renownedFor magic arts, your limbs had arrows fixed in every limbWere mighty snakes, transformed by race, they live beneathThe earth, and slay with venomed teeth. Garuda is represented in pictures and sculpture in variousways. Sometimes he has the head and wings of a bird, with ahuman body ; sometimes he has a birds claws ; and at othershe has a human face, and the body of a bird. JATAYUS AND SAMPATI. Garuda had two sons, named Jatayus and Sampati, who alsoassisted Rama. As he, Lakshman, and Sati reached the hermit-age in the forest where they intended to remain, they saw a * Griffithss Ramayana, v. 153. 3So Tin: Inferior Deities. mi vulture, of size and strength unparalleled. Struck with earance, Rama inquired who he was, when Jatayus in-ned them of his parentage, and offered to be their friend: Thy ready helper will I beAnd guard thy house, if thou agree :When thou and Lakshman urge the chase,By Sitas side shall be my place. *. AVIS. T] fer was accepted ; and when Rama saw the stag which nt to attract him from his home, he went after it with Griffithss Ramayana, iii. 68. Jatayus and Sampati. 381 the greater sense of security because Jatayus was there to guardhis wife. When Ravana seized Sita, she cried out to Jatayus : Oh see, the king who rules the raceOf giants, cruel, fierce, and base !Ravan, the spoiler, bears me hence,The helpless prey of violence. * Jatayus first tries by reasoning to lead Ravana to restore Sitato her home, and warned him that death would result from hisact of violence. When, however, neither advice nor threatsavailed, he prepared to fight: With clash and din and furious blows Of murderous battle met the foes : * * * * Then fierce the dreadful combat raged,As fiend and bird in war engaged,As if two winged mountains spedTo dire encounter overhead. f Jatayus succeeded in breaking Ravanas bow, but A second bow soon armed his hand,Whence pointed a
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