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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The Asvins invited to the Soma sacrifice like a pair of Swans hastening to the water:
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ifaa ett 37 anfaa - RV 8.35.8 The Swan is monogamous and a pair, being greatly attached to each other, keep together. This is particularly the case with the Mute Swans (see above). The last two references are, therefore, to these birds. None of the Geese can be intended as they live and move in flocks of some size when away from their breeding grounds.
White horses (FQF: ‘shining and therefore 'white') running, in a race or otherwise, in a line are compared to Swans flying in a line :
FORT BTTİ Aga FURÀ ATT - RV 1.163.10. Freshly cut to size and barked (and therefore white) wooden sacrificial posts carried on their shoulders by men walking in a single file along a forest foot-path look like long-necked Swans flying in a line
nga sfurgit at: : - RV 3.8.9 The Whoopers, when in small parties, fly in a line. The Geese, on the other hand, always occur in large flocks and fly in "bunches" on shorter and in wedge-formation or very long lines on longer flights. A party of Whoopers answering the sonorous call of their leader :
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371 E T Tui farreiraT4 -RV 9.32.3 The हिरण्यपर्ण हसं with a beautiful voice (मधुम्न्त) in the below is the same as the सुवण्ण of the wild, and the fetue of 04134149 (see paragraphs 7 & 8 below) and, therefore, a young Whooper with a greyish brown plumage :
ART 9 ai Hc fent fexuelquf 369 348/4: – RV 4.45.4 The e dedicated to the Moon-God (VS 24.22) and the Wind-God (Ib.24.35) are clearly Swans. The Sun and Moon have often been pictured as a Swan, and its powerful flight and migratory are fully in keeping with the spirit of the Wind.
इदं च रमरगीयं ते प्रतिभाति वनस्पते ।। यद् इमे विहगास्तात ! रमन्ते मुदितास्त्वयि ॥ एषां पृथक् समस्तानां श्रूयते मधुरः स्वरः ।।
पुष्पसंमोदने काले वाशतां सुमनोहम् ॥ This magnificent picture of thine is very charming indeed, O Lord of the forest, when these birds are happily enjoying themselves upon trees, O dear ! and their sweet musical notes are distinctly heard as they sing beautifully during the season of fragrant flowers (the spring.)
Thus, Birds science is addressed in detail in vedas including Birds, their species & sub
Birds in Sanskrit Literature
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