Krishna invokes his name on the battlefield in the Bhagavad Gita, though  the fullest account of his life comes from the Mahabharata, where he is said to be the son of Kashyapa and Vinata.
An independent Upanishad and Purana are dedicated to him, and he is known as Periya Thiruvadi in Tamil Vaishnavism.  He is identified with the constellation Aquila, and is represented today by the Brahminy kite. He is called Syena in the Vedas, which tell of his bringing nectar to earth from the heavens, and in Buddhism, a race of divine creatures who are at war with the snakelike Nagas shares his name. Krishna invokes his name on the battlefield in the Bhagavad Gita, though  the fullest account of his life comes from the Mahabharata, where he is said to be the son of Kashyapa and Vinata. He  was said to have defeated an entire host of gods in full battle array while on his quest to steal the amrita, or elixir of immortality, but made peace with both Indra and Vishnu, to whom he became a loyal servant and mount. Said to have  burst forth from his egg as a raging inferno and to be large enough to block out the sun, this is, FTP, what Hindu bird  deity, whose flapping wings chant the Vedas?
An independent Upanishad and Purana are dedicated to him, and he is known as Periya Thiruvadi in Tamil Vaishnavism.  
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