And there he saw a fig tree, hued like clouds, surrounded by ascetics; its branches stretched around an hundred Yojanas, and the exceedingly powerful Garuda had ascended one of its boughs, taking an elephant and a huge tortoise, for the purpose of devouring them.
तत्रापश्यत् स मेघाभं न्यग्रोधं मुनिभिर्वृतम्॥ समन्ताद् यस्य ताः शाखा: शतयोजनमायताः। यस्य हस्तिनमादाय महाकायं च कच्छपम्॥ भक्षार्थं गरुडः शाखामाजगाम महाबलः।