Suparṇa
mythological figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Suparṇa the animal
the celestial eagle · the eagle
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Mythic eagle/bird figure invoked to favor the newborn hero with long life.
May the Suparṇa look down upon thee with favor, for long life and for brilliance;
That earth which Suparṇa beheld sunken within the great flood — thee, O Sūkara, by thy wizardry thou didst lift up thrice from the ocean.
Suparṇa looked about and saw the earth enveloped in the ocean.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The divine bird invoked in simile for the palace bereft of Rāma, as a lake whose serpent has been carried off.
The palace, bereft of Rāma, of Vaidehī, and of Lakṣmaṇa, was like a great deep lake, once unagitated, whose serpent has been carried off by Suparṇa.
Those two, of fearsome strength and prowess, with the speed of Suparṇa, towering and terrible in form, were like the sun and moon in the sky.