Tamra

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Wife of Kaśyapa and ancestress of a broad animal branch through six daughters — Śukī, Śyenī, Bhāsī, Sugrīvī, Śuci and Gṛdhrikā — giving parrots, hawks, kites, vultures and water birds. Sugrīvī’s line also yields horses, camels and asses, which is why ‘mother of birds’ understates her.

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