Sampaati

As they sat there, lamenting, they spoke of the vulture Jatayu, who had died fighting Ravana, and a voice answered them from the mountain above.

It was another great vulture, old and wingless, named Sampati, and he was Jatayu's elder brother.

Long ago, when they were young, the two brothers had tried to fly up to the sun, and Sampati had spread his wings over his brother to shield him from its heat, and his own wings had been burned away, and he had fallen here, on the shore of the Southern Sea, and lived there ever since.

When he heard of his brother's death, Sampati grieved.

And then he told the Vanaras what they wanted to know.

From that height, with the long sight of the vultures, he could see across the ocean.