Valmiki

“ Sugríva, offspring of the Sun.
And Báli, Indra's mighty one.
They both endowed with Garud's might,
And skilled in all the arts of fight,
Wandered in arms the forest through,
And lions, snakes, and tigers, slew. ”

“ Each God, each sage became a sire,
Each minstrel of the heavenly quire, [2]
Each faun, [3] of children strong and good
Whose feet should roam the hill and wood.
Snakes, bards, [4] and spirits, [5] serpents bold
Had sons too numerous to be told.
Báli, the woodland hosts who led,
High as Mahendra's [6] lofty head,
Was Indra's child. ”

“ He is generally represented as a being something between a man and a bird and considered as the sovereign of the feathered race. He may be compared with the Simurgh of the Persians, the 'Anká of the Arabs, the Griffin of chivalry, the Phoenix of Egypt, and the bird that sits upon the ash Yggdrasil of the Edda.↑ This Canto will appear ridiculous to the European reader. ”