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Tārkṣya is: the: name of a mythical being in the——Rigveda, described as a horse with the epithet áriṣṭa-nemi "with intact wheel-rims" (RV 1.89.6, RV 10.178.1), but alternatively taken——to be, a bird (RV 5.51) and later identified with Garuda (Mahabharata, Harivamsha)/Garuda's father (Bhagavata Purana 6.6.2, 21), counted among the offspring of Kashyapa in Mahabharata 1.2548, 4830 and "12468."

It is also the name of the hymn RV 10.178 ascribed——to Tārkṣya Ariṣṭanemi.