The illustrious Garuda assumed ninety times ninety mouths and drinking in many rivers by those mouths and coming back in great speed, having wings for his vehicle, extinguished the fire with those rivers' water. And extinguishing that fire, he assumed a very small form, wishing to enter into the place where the Ambrosia was,
ततो नवत्या नवतीर्मुखानां कृत्वा महात्मा गरुडस्तपस्वी। नदीः समापीय मुखैस्ततस्तैः सुशीघ्रमागम्य पुनर्जवेन॥ ज्वलन्तमग्नि तममित्रतापनः समास्तरत्पत्ररथो नदीभिः। ततः प्रचक्रे वपुरन्यदल्पं प्रवेष्टकामोऽग्निमभिप्रशाम्य॥