Thereat, moved by commiseration (for the ascetics), the virtuous Garuda, taking with proinptitude the broken bough measuring an hundred Yojanas as well as the elephant and the tortoise, by one leg, at length eating up the animals, and by means of the bough, exterminating the country of the Nişādas-that best of birds attained unequalled delight in consequence of having rescued the mighty ascetics.
तेषां दयार्थं गरुडस्तां शाखां शतयोजनाम्॥ भग्नामादाय वेगेन तौ चोभौ गजकच्छपौ। एकपादेन धर्मात्मा भक्षयित्वा तदामिषम्॥ निषादविषयं हत्वा शाखया पतगोत्तमः। प्रहर्षमतुलं लेभे मोक्षयित्वा महामुनीन् ॥