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Dear Dr JB,
Can I have your permission to use the following in our Youth Section of the
Singapore Hindu,please?
Thank you.
palani

>>
>> Garuda is a type of white-breasted falcon. It is
>> of divine origin. According to Hindu Mythology, Garuda
>> and the snakes are off-springs of the same father but different
>> mothers. In his younger days, Garuda had to endure some injustice
>> at the hands of the mother of snakes.
>> The feats of Garuda are found in a small mythological
>> text called Garuda Purana. He ultimately becomes the vahana
>> of Vishnu. But he remains a sworn enemy of snakes.
>> Sesha is a thousand-headed serpent of unqualified
>> valour and strenght. He is the King of the Serpents and Lord
>> of the Patala Loka or the "world beneath". He possesses immense
>> knowledge. In fact, it was he is reputed have to have been
>> the Grand-guru of Adhi Shankara himself. Sesha became the
>> seat and the bed-stead of Vishnu. Thus Vishnu gets the name
>> "Ananda Sayana" or Ananda Padma-nabha".Ananda is also a
>> name for Sesha. One of the hills of Thirupathi, the holy pilgrimage
>> centre for Vishnu is known as Sesha Giri.
>> When Vishnu took the incarnation of Rama, Sesha
>> followed him as his younger brother Lakshmana. When Vishnu
>> was born as Krishna, Sesha became BalaRama-the elder brother
>> of Krishna.
>> Garuda is the State emblem of Indonesia and Thailand



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