N, and the fetters of Varunas are the bridle of the horse, which the imprudent father sells to the demon,…
- Date of account
- English edition published 1872
- Source
- Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
- Reference
- Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2) · selected passage 26
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-25
Record summary
n, and the fetters of Varunas are the bridle of the horse, which the imprudent father sells to the demon, together with his son in the shape of a horse;[220] the beautiful daughter of the demon (the white one, who, as usual, comes out of the black monster) delivers the young man transformed into a horse; as in the Vedi…
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyn, and the fetters of Varunas are the bridle of the horse, which the imprudent father sells to the demon, together with his son in the shape of a horse;[220] the beautiful daughter of the demon (the white one, who, as usual, comes out of the black monster) delivers the young man transformed into a horse; as in the Vedic story of Çunahçepas, it is explicitly the dawn who is the young girl that delivers.[221] Varunas is called in the _Râmâyanam_ the god who has in his hand a rope (_pâçahastas_); his dwelling is on Mount Astas, where the sun goes down, and which it is impossible to touch, because it burns, in an immense palace, the work of Viçvakarman, which has a hundred rooms, lakes with nymphs, and trees of gold.[222] Evidently, Varunas is here, not a different form, but a different name of the god Yamas, the pâçin, or furnished with rope, the constrictor _par excellence_; for we are to suppose the magic display of golden splendour in the evening heavens not so much the work of the sun itself, as produced by the gloomy god who sits on the mountain, who invests and surprises the solar hero, and drags him into his kingdom.
Historical context
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Modern context
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