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In Buddhist mythology, the garuas are enormous predatory birds with intelligence & social organization meaning “well-winged, having good wings”. Like the Ngas, they combine the characteristics of animals & divine beings & may be considered to be among the lowest devas.

The exact size of the garua is uncertain, but its wings are said to have a span of many miles. This may be a poetic exaggeration, but it is also said that when a garua’s wings flap, they create hurricane-like winds that darken the sky & blow down houses. A human being is so small compared to a garua that a man can hide in the plumage of one without being noticed. They are also capable of tearing up entire trees from their roots & carrying them off.

The garuas have kings & cities, & at least some of them have the magical power of changing into human form when they wish to have dealings with people. On some occasions Garua kings have had romances with human women in this form. Their dwellings are in groves of the silk-cotton tree.

The garuas are enemies to the Ngas, a race of intelligent serpent- or dragon-like beings, whom they hunt. The garuas at one time caught the ngas by seizing them by their heads; but the ngas learned that by swallowing large stones, they could make themselves too heavy to be carried by the garuas, wearing them out & killing them from exhaustion. This secret was divulged to one of the garuas by the ascetic Karambiya, who taught him how to seize a nga by the tail & force him to vomit up his stone.

The garuas were among the beings appointed by akra to guard Mount Sumeru & the Tryastria heaven from the attacks of the asuras.

In the Mahasamyatta Sutta, the Buddha is shown making temporary peace between the Nagas & the garuas.