Note 24 — Chapter LXI
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
A certain snake,24 out of fear of Garuḍa, fled to earth, and taking the form of a man, concealed himself in the house of a hetæra. And that hetæra used to take as payment five hundred elephants;25 and the snake by his power gave her five hundred every day. And the lady importuned him to tell her how he acquired so many elephants every day, and who he was. And he, blinded with love, replied—“I am a snake hiding here from fear of Garuḍa, do not tell any one.” But the hetæra privately told all this to the kuṭṭiní.