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" When Kadru and Vinata, two wives of Kacyapa, had a dispute as to the colour of the Sun's horses, they made an agreement that the one that was wrong should become a slave to the other. Kadru, the mother of the snakes, induced her sons to defile the horses... "
The Grateful Elephant: And Other Stories Translated from the Pāli - Page 160
by Eugene Watson Burlingame - 1923 - 172 pages
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The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Sōmadeva's ..., Volume 2

Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Norman Mosley Penzer - Folk literature - 1924 - 408 pages
...white, and they made an agreement that the one that was wrong should become a slave to the other.1 Then Kadru, bent on winning, actually induced her...spitting venom over them ; and showing them to Vinata 1 Like the two physicians in Gesta Romanorum, Ixxvi. See Ocean of Story, Vol. I, p. 1 43, J 43n2. There...
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Indian Serpent-lore: Or, The Nāgas in Hindu Legend and Art

J. P. Vogel, Jean Philippe Vogel - Art - 1995 - 414 pages
...Uchchaihs'ravas but of the Sun's horses, is the matter disputed by the two sisters, and Kadiu, bent on winning, " induced her sons, the snakes, to defile the horses of the Sun by spitting venom over them." This trait in itself would not appear to be of much importance, as variations of this kind may easily...
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