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Legend · 3 tellings · contested

The falcon brings Soma from heaven

Soma is kept in the highest heaven; a falcon carries it down to men while the archer Krishanu shoots at him. Later texts make the bird the Gayatri metre, then Garuda.

Soma, Krishanu, Indra, Kadru

Pan-India