Kanva said: 'Meanwhile, O Bharata, the mighty Garuda heard of what had happened — namely, that Shakra had granted long life to the serpent Sumukha. And, blazing with great fury, that ranger of the heavens, Suparna, who struck the three worlds with the hurricane raised by the beating of his wings, swiftly came before Vasava. And Garuda said: "O illustrious one, disregarding me, why have you interfered with my sustenance? Having granted me a boon of your own will, why do you now take it away? The Supreme Lord of all beings determined from the very beginning what my food should be. Why, then, do you stand in the way of this divine ordinance? I chose this great serpent and appointed the time, for, O god, I intended to offer the flesh of his body as sustenance for my numerous offspring. Therefore, since he has received a boon from you and has become indestructible through me, how can I ever again dare to kill another of his kind? Do you thus amuse yourself as you please, O Vasava? Yet I shall have to die, as will the members of my family and the servants I have taken into my household. I think this will please you, O Vasava! Truly, O slayer of Vala and Vritra, I deserve all this, and more, since, though I am the mighty lord of the three worlds, I have nonetheless consented to become another's servant. O king of the three worlds, Vishnu, however, is not the only cause of my inferiority, for although, O Vasava, I am altogether your equal, still the dominion of the three worlds rests upon you, O chief of the gods. Like you, my mother is a daughter of Daksha, and my father is Kashyapa. Like you, I can bear the weight of the three worlds without any weariness."'