In one of the hymns in the tenth book, also a mystical song, the sun is the 'bird' of the sky, a metaphor which soon gives another figure to the pantheon in the form of Garutman, the sun-bird, of whose exploits are told strange tales in the epic, where he survives as Garuda.

In other hymns S[=u]rya averts carelessness at the sacrifice, guards the worshipper, and slays demons.

A mechanical little hymn describes him as measuring the 'thirty stations.' Not one of these hymns has literary freshness or beauty of any kind.

They all belong to the class of stereotyped productions, which differ in origin and content from the hymns first mentioned.[20] SAVITAR.
Turning to Savitar one finds, of course, many of the same descriptive traits as in the praise of S[=u]rya, his more material self.

But with the increased spirituality come new features.