Hayaśiras
HAYASIRAS, HAYASIRSHA.
[Source:
Dowson's Classical Dictionary
of Hindu Mythology] 'Horse-head.'
In the Mahabharata it is recorded that the sage Aurva (q.v.) "cast the
fire of his anger into the sea," and that it
there "became the great Hayasiras, known to those acquainted with the Veda,
which vomits forth that fire and drinks up the waters." A form of Vishnu.
In the Bhagavata Puran Brahma is represented as saying, "In my sacrifice
Bhagavat himself was Hayasirsha, the male of the sacrifice, whose colour is
that of gold, of whom the Vedas and the sacrifices are the substance and the
gods the soul, when he respired, charming words came forth from his nostrils."
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Modern
Languages MLLL-4993. Indian Epics. Laura Gibbs, Ph.D.
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