Uttar Kaanda
210 - Kakabhusundi narrates the story of his previous lives and tells Garuda the glory of the Kali age
Chaupais
Description
In my terror I closed my eyes; and when I opened them again I found myself at Kosalapura (Ayodhya). Sri Rama smiled to see me back; and even as He laughed I was instantly driven into His mouth (throat). Listen, king of the birds: inside His belly I beheld multitudinous universes with many strange spheres each more wonderful than the rest, with myriads of Brahmas and Sivas, countless stars, suns and moons, numberless Lokapalas (guardians of spheres), Yamas (gods of punishment) and Kalas (gods of death), innumerable mountains and vast terrestrial globes, oceans, rivers, lakes and forests without end and manifold other varieties of creation, with gods and sages, the Siddhas, Nagas, human beings and Kinnaras and the four classes of living beings, both moving and motionless.