Vinata

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Wife of Kaśyapa and mother of Garuḍa and Aruṇa. Enslaved through a wager with Kadrū, she is freed when Garuḍa obtains the amṛta — so what reads in the genealogy as a simple opposition of bird and serpent becomes one of the Mahābhārata’s major dramas.

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