 | Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Norman Mosley Penzer - Folk literature - 1924 - 408 pages
...might, and made this agreement with him : " I will send you every day one snake to eat, O King of Birds, on the hill that rises out of the sand of the sea. But you must not act so foolishly as to enter Patala,3 for by the destruction of the serpent world... | |
 | Religion - 1991 - 394 pages
...the sea, I will send you a single snake to eat. But you must not commit the folly of entering Fatala, for by destroying utterly the whole race of the snakes,...on the hill that rises out of the sand of the sea, Väsuki, king of the snakes, sends to the griffin, the king of the birds, a single snake to eat. And... | |
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... Vasuki the king of the snakes, seeing him there every day, considered that the serpent world was ruined at one blow: then, after reflecting, he preferred a petition to that Garuda of irresistible might, and made this agreement with him — 'I will... 