From pride for power of flight, I and Jatayu, being intoxicated by conceit, began to voyage the sky afar off, with the view of testing each other's prowess, binding ourselves by the vow that we would follow the Sun so long as he did not enter that mighty Setting mountain,-and appear before the ascetics on the summit of Kailāsa.
अहं चैव जटायुश्च संघर्षाद् गर्वमोहितौ। आकाशं पतितौ दूराज्जिज्ञासन्तौ पराक्रमम्॥ कैलासशिखरे बद्ध्वा मुनीनामग्रतः पणम्। रविः स्यादनुयातव्यो यावदस्तं महागिरिम्॥