you ate before, who now are nothing but bones."

And Garuda said: "So be it. I will eat no serpents hereafter. And
those that I have eaten shall come to life."

Then all the serpents who had been eaten down to the bones,
suddenly stood up. And through the grace of Gauri all the leading
fairies learned immediately the wonderful deed of
Cloud-chariot. So they all came and bowed at his feet and took
him, freshly anointed by the very hand of Gauri, with his rejoicing
relatives and friends to the Himalaya mountain. There
Cloud-chariot lived happily with his father and his mother and his
wife Sandal and Friend-wealth and the generous
Shell-crest. And he ruled the fairy world radiant with gems.


When the goblin had told this long, strange story, he said to the
king: "O King, tell me. Which was the more
self-sacrificing, Cloud-chariot or Shell-crest? If you know and do
not tell, then the curse I mentioned before will be fulfilled."

And the king said: "There was nothing remarkable in what
Cloud-chariot did. He was prepared for it by the experiences of
many past lives. But Shell-crest deserves praise. He was saved
from death. His enemy had another victim, and was far away. Yet
he ran after and offered his body to Garuda."

When the goblin heard this, he went back to the sissoo tree. And
the king returned to catch him again.