Note 16 — Chapter XXII
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
M. Lévêque considers that the above story, as told in the Mahábhárata, forms the basis of the Birds of Aristophanes. He identifies Garuḍa with the hoopoe. (Les Mythes et Légendes de l’Inde et de la Perse, p. 14).