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Concept
Vinata
Summary
In Hinduism, Vinata (विनता) is the mother of Aruna and Garuda. She is one of the daughters of Prajapati Daksha. She is married to Kashyapa, along with several of her sisters. She bears him two sons, the elder being Aruna and the younger being Garuda.
Vinata is a daughter of Daksha. Kadru is her elder sister, and when they both lived with Kashyapa as his wives, and attended to all his comforts, he blessed them by granting each of them a boon. Kadru asked for a thousand naga sons who should be valiant. Prompted by her sister's demand for sons, Vinata asked for only two sons, who should be more powerful and brighter than Kadru's children. Kashyapa granted them their wishes. After his wives became pregnant, he advised them to look after the children, and then left for his penance in the forest.
According to the Mahabharata, Kadru went on to lay a thousand eggs, and Vinata, two eggs. Both of them kept their eggs in hot pots. In their five-hundredth year, the eggs of Kadru hatched, and thousand nagas of various kinds emerged out of them. The sight of Kadru playing with her children frustrated Vinata since her eggs had not hatched. Impatient, she broke open one of her eggs in secret, and a half-grown child stepped out of it. That child was Aruṇa. He was enraged that Vinata had forced open the egg prematurely. He told her that as punishment, she would become a slave of Kadru. Aruna also informed her of her source of redemption: After another 500 years, the remaining egg of hers would hatch, and a son endowed with exceptional power and prowess would be born to liberate her. Having proclaimed thus, Aruṇa rose to the sky, where he became the charioteer of Surya.
After the events of the Samudra Manthana, Indra obtained a horse named Uccaihshravas from the Ocean of Milk. A dispute arose between Vinata and Kadru regarding the colour of the horse’s tail: Kadru asserted that it was black, while Vinata believed that it was white. They further agreed to observe the horse the next day, betting that she who was proved to be wrong would become the slave of the victor.
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