Kadru

Kadru ( Sanskrit , f., कद्रू, Kadrū, literally: "the brown one") is a figure in Hindu mythology. She embodies the earth in contrast to Vinata , which stands for the sky.

Kadru is the daughter of Daksha . In the creation story she is the wife of Kashyapa , the ancient creator god and father of creatures. Kadru gave Kashyapa a multitude of eggs from which various kinds of serpentine nagas , the Kadraveya, hatched .

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Since Vinata, also a wife of Kashyapa, only had children, she became jealous of Kadru and her numerous offspring and broke the first egg. However, the being in the egg had not yet taken shape, so the lightning came about . The second egg contained a radiant adolescent who had no legs due to the premature birth. It was Aruna , the dawn, the charioteer of the sun god Surya .

literature

• Kadru . In: John Dowson : A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature. Trübner & co., London 1879, p. 138 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Jan Knappert: Lexicon of Indian Mythology. Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-07817-9 , p. 161.