Arun - Garuda's brother

            Sage Kashyap had two wives named Vinata and Kathru. The eldest one was Vinata and the youngest one was Kathru. They both became pregnant with the grace of sage Kashyap.

           Vinata bore two ova (eggs in uterus) and Kathru bore one hundred and five ova. The time came and the younger one Kathru gave birth to serpents.   

   AdiSesha, Vasuki and one hundred and two more male serpents were born to Kathru. Out of one hundred and five serpents, only one was female and her name was Jarathkaru.

        Vinata became furious and she broke one of the ova by striking her stomach and the egg broke. Out came Arun without legs. Since he came out of the egg before the prescribed time, he was born physically disabled. 

This made him angry and he cursed his mother for breaking the egg and making him disabled. He cursed that Vinata would become a slave of Kathru and serve her. 

        After his anger subsided, he told his mother Vinata that she would be freed from the curse by the child that is going to be born. He instructed Vinata to take care of the remaining egg carefully. He then flew off.

          He went to meet Sun God and became his charioteer. On his name,  we have a time before sun rise called Arunodhay.