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nevertheless poetical convention treats them as being under the influence of love during the cold season. The reason is that they are in a good condition and keep calling to one another, and hence expressions like मत्रहंस or मत्तकलहंस, for according to पाराशर quoted by भट्टोत्पल in EriEGI, 85,28, the 46010 for chica, etc, is the TG .
According to a story related in the रामायण, 7.18 God वरुण avoided रावण by transforming himself into a and latter granted a boon to the bird for his help and made him permanently white : -
वर्णो मनोरमः सौम्यश्चन्दमण्डलसन्निभः । ufqufa Maici: US 77499: || - 9.86.78. हंसानां हि पुरा राम न वर्णं सर्वपाण्डुरः । 48 d ata: 5T: yoqaf TEST: | 6.82.38
14 also describes this favourite bird (a) of abu as wholly white :
हंसोऽपि हिमकर्पूरशीतांशुरजतद्युतिः
वरुणस्य वराज्जातस्तोयेशप्रीतिमान्सदा ॥ - रामायणमंजरी, ७.३३९. The 64 of the story is clearly a Swan and the change of colour from Juvenile to adult plumage has been explained mythically. The mount of a (HE) is also a Swan so that the epithet for for at denotes a Swan - see para. 11 of this and para. 6 of section B.
The Rigveda contains references to as (i)»ò a solitary bird (ii) going in pairs, and (iii) flying and calling together in a line. There is also mention of the fing , the Bar-head Goose (section B, para 5). The following references are evidently to the Swan :
The FTA plant when crushed exudes the juice with a hissing sound due to air bubbles coming out and bursting. This is compared to the hissing of a Swan when disturbed on the water :
"afn HGT' - RV 1.65.5. We have seen that the female of the Mute Swan hisses angrily when disturbed. Writing about the voice of Swans, B. Vesey Fitzgerland also says: "The Mute Swan very rarely does more than hiss severely at unwelcome visitors." It is, therefore, incorrect to translate parafa as "pants" as Griffith does, for there is no reason for the bird of powerful flight to 'pant' and the comparison is between the effects produced on the 14 and a when they are teased (crushed being the proper word for 14 corres-ponding to 'teased' or 'annoyed' for the a).
The Sun is called "H: yam' in RV 4.40.5, and the reference can only be to a solitary Swan floating upon a wide expanse of deep blue water, Cf:
प्रजगाम नभश्चन्दो हंसो नीलमिवोदकम् । - रामायण, ५.१७.१.
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