Garuda attacks and devours the nishada tribe
Garuda, tasked with fetching the amrita (nectar of immortality), is overcome with hunger. He descends upon the home of the nishada tribe by the ocean, raising a storm that blinds them and drives them into his waiting mouth.
Garuda flew from his mother’s abode, his mission clear: to bring the amrita to the snakes to free his mother from bondage. But a great hunger rose in him, a physical need that had to be satisfied before the impossible quest could begin.
He descended upon the remote ocean home of the nishadas — a tribe who lived on fish — like Yama, the god of death, arriving in person. Determined to destroy them, he raised a great storm of dust. It was a localized apocalypse: the dust blotted out the sky, dried the water in the ocean itself, and shook the surrounding mountains.
Blinded and terrified, the nishadas panicked. Garuda, the king of birds and eater of snakes, opened his gigantic mouth, blocking their escape route. Like thousands of birds fleeing a storm in a forest, the nishadas streamed into the wide, dark opening — a river of humanity flowing into the maw of a creature beyond their comprehension.
Then the hungry bird, possessed of great strength and swift speed, closed his mouth. The traveller in the sky killed many nishadas, satisfying the hunger his mother had instructed him to quell. His immediate need met, he could continue his journey toward the amrita.