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Tarkshya
A god-driven steed praised in Rigveda 10.178. In the epics the name belongs to the bird Garuda.
Sources: Vedic Mythology, A. A. Macdonell (1897) · see Tarkshya's web
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Garuda
(Vahana / animal)
In the epics and later Tarkshya is the same as the bird Garuda, the mount of Vishnu. In the Rigveda he is a steed.
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- Vedic Mythology, A. A. Macdonell (1897) § s60 Scholarly