01025024a SaD ucchrito yojanAni gajas tad dviguNAyataH And the elephant is six yojanas in height and twice that measure in circumference.
01025024c kUrmas triyojanotsedho dazayojanamaNDalaH And the height of the tortoise also is three yojanas and his circumference ten.
01025025a tAv etau yuddhasamMmattau parasparajayaiSiNau Eat thou up both of them that are madly engaged in the encounter and bent upon slaying each other,
01025025c upayujyAzu karmedaM sAdhayepsitam AtmanaH and then accomplish the task that thou desirest. Eating that fierce elephant which looketh like a huge mountain and resembleth a mass of dark clouds, bring thou amrita.'
01025026 sUta uvAca 'Sauti continued, 'Having said so unto Garuda, he (Kasyapa) blessed him, saying, 'Blest be thou when thou art in combat with the gods. Let water pitchers filled to the brim, brAhmaNas, kine, and other auspicious objects, bless thee, thou oviparous one. And, O thou of great strength, when thou art engaged with the gods in combat, let the Riks, the Yajus, the Samas, the sacred sacrificial butter, all the mysteries (Upanishads), constitute thy strength.'
01025026a sa tac chrutvA pitur vAkyamM bhImavego 'ntarikSagaH 'Garuda, thus addressed by his father, wended to the side of that lake. He saw that expanse of clear water with birds of various kinds all around. And remembering the words of his father, that ranger of the skies possessed of great swiftness of motion,
01025026c nakhena gajam ekena kUrmam ekena cAkSipat seized the elephant and the tortoise, one in each claw.
01025027a samutpapAta cAkAzanM tata uccair vihaGMgamaH And that bird then soared high into the air.
01025027c so 'lambatIrtham AsAdya devavRkSAn upAgamat And he came upon a sacred place called alamba and saw many divine trees.
01025028a te bhItAsH samakampanta tasya pakSAnilAhatAH And struck by the wind raised by his wings, those trees began to shake with fear.
01025028c na no bhaJjyAd iti tadA divyAH kanakazAkhinaH And those divine trees having golden boughs feared that they would break.
01025029a pracalAGgAn sa tAn dRSTvA manorathaphalAGkurAn And the ranger of the skies seeing that those trees capable of granting every wish were quaking with fear,
01025029c anyAn atularUpAGgAn upacakrAma khecaraH went to other trees of incomparable appearance. And those gigantic trees were adorned
01025030a kAJcanai rAjataiz caiva phalair vaiDUryazAkhinaH with fruits of gold and silver and branches of precious gems.
01025030c sAgarAmbuparikSiptAn bhrAjamAnAn mahAdrumAn And they were washed with the water of the sea.
01025031a tam uvAca khagazreSThanM tatra rohiNapAdapaH A large banian tree there, that had grown into gigantic proportions, told that best of birds
01025031c atipravRddhasH sumahAn ApatantamM manojavam that was coursing towards it with the fleetness of the mind --
01025032a yaiSA mama mahAzAkhA zatayojanam AyatA 'Sit thou on this large branch of mine extending a hundred yojanas
01025032c etAm AsthAya zAkhAnM tvaGM khAdemau gajakacchapau and eat the elephant and the tortoise.'
01025033a tato drumamM patagasahasrasevitam then on that tree, the resort of thousands of winged creatures
01025033b mahIdharapratimavapuH prakampayan garuDa of body resembling a mountain, making it tremble,
01025033c khagottamo drutam abhipatya vegavAn that best of birds, quickly alighted and
01025033d babhaJja tAm aviralapatrasaMvRtAm broke that bough full of leaves.''
