“Take me to the sea-shore, so that I may make an offering of water with sesamum seeds (to my departed brother). I can help you only with my instructions, by following which you will succeed in recovering Her whom you seek.” (27) and demons as well as of the various sub-human species, begot two sons by VinatŒ (the mother of the feathered creation)—Aru˜a and Garu˛a by name. Of these Aru˜a serves as the charioteer of the sun-god, while Garu˛a was chosen by BhagavŒn Viƒ˜u as His own mount. Aru˜a is the father of SampŒt¶ and Ja¢Œyu, who thus belonged to the earliest period of the world’s history. Their enormous size and uncommon strength, their astounding longevity and their speaking and behaving like human beings will therefore, cause little wonder when it is remembered that the world has steadily deteriorated since its creation.