Cloud-chariot saw his relatives gathered, fell down, and died from
the pain of his wounds. Then, while his grief-stricken parents were
loudly lamenting, while Shell-crest was accusing himself, Sandal
looked up to heaven and, in a voice stammering with tears,
reproached the goddess Gauri who had graciously given her this
husband: "Oh, Mother! You told me that the fairy prince should be
my husband, but it is my fate that you spoke falsely."

Then Gauri appeared in a visible form, and said: "Daughter, my
words are not false." And she sprinkled Cloud-chariot with nectar
from a jar. And straightway he stood up alive, unhurt and more
beautiful than before.

As they all bent low in worship, and Cloud-chariot rose only to
bend again, the goddess said: "My son, I am pleased with your gift
of your own body. With my own hand I anoint you king of the
fairies." And she anointed Cloud-chariot with liquor from the jar,
and then disappeared, followed by the worship of the company.
And showers of heavenly blossoms fell from the sky, and the
drums of the gods were joyfully beaten in heaven.

Then Garuda reverently said to Cloud-chariot: "O King, I am
pleased with your more than human character. For you have done a
strange thing of unparalleled nobility, to be marvelled at
throughout the universe, to be written upon the walls of heaven.
Therefore I am at your service. Choose from me what boon you
will."

The noble creature said to Garuda: "O Garuda, you must repent
and eat no more serpents. And you must restore to life those that