Aruna’s Family Tree

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Family

• Kashyapa(parent),Vinata(parent),Garuda(sibling)— Marriage

  Kashyapa and Vinata are parents of Garuda, the divine eagle, and Aruna, charioteer of the sun. Vinata's first egg hatched prematurely, producing the incomplete Aruna; the second egg yielded the fully formed and blazing Garuda.

Associated with

• Surya

  Aruna, born prematurely from Vinata's egg with undeveloped legs, serves as Surya's charioteer, driving the solar chariot across the sky each day. His reddish form personifies the dawn that precedes sunrise.

• Vinata

  Vinata cracked open one of her two divine eggs after five hundred years of incubation, unable to wait any longer. The half-formed Aruna emerged and cursed her to serve as Kadru's slave for five hundred years, foretelling that her second son would free her.