Kathasaritsagara 4.2.232

In the meanwhile Śankachúda came there, having worshipped Gokarna, and saw the rock of execution sprinkled with many drops of blood; then he thought— " Alas! surely that great-hearted one has offered himself for me, so 1 wonder where Garuda has taken him in this short time. I must search for him quickly, perhaps I may find him." Accordingly the good snake went following up the track of the blood. And in the meanwhile Garuda, seeing that Jímútaváhana was pleased, left off eating and thought with wonder: " This must be some one else, other than I ought to have taken, for though I am eating him, he is not at all miserable, on the contrary the resolute one rejoices." While Garuda was thinking this, Jímútaváhana, though in such a state, said to him in order to attain his object: " O king of birds, in my body also there is flesh and blood; then why have you suddenly stopped eating, though your hunger is not appeased?" When he heard that, that king of birds, being overpowered with astonishment, said to him— "Noble one, you are not a snake, tell me who you are." Jímútaváhana was just answering him, " I am a snake, so eat me, complete what you have begun, for men of resolution never leave unfinished an undertaking they have begun," when Śankachúda arrived and cried out from a- far, " Stop, stop, Garuda, he is not a snake, I am the snake meant for you, so let him go, alas!

In the meanwhile Śankachúda came there, having worshipped Gokarna, and saw the rock of execution sprinkled with many drops of blood; then he thought— " Alas! surely that great-hearted one has offered himself for me, so 1 wonder where Garuda has taken him in this short time. I must search for him quickly, perhaps I may find him." Accordingly the good snake went following up the track of the blood. And in the meanwhile Garuda, seeing that Jímútaváhana was pleased, left off eating and thought with wonder: " This must be some one else, other than I ought to have taken, for though I am eating him, he is not at all miserable, on the contrary the resolute one rejoices." While Garuda was thinking this, Jímútaváhana, though in such a state, said to him in order to attain his object: " O king of birds, in my body also there is flesh and blood; then why have you suddenly stopped eating, though your hunger is not appeased?" When he heard that, that king of birds, being overpowered with astonishment, said to him— "Noble one, you are not a snake, tell me who you are." Jímútaváhana was just answering him, " I am a snake, so eat me, complete what you have begun, for men of resolution never leave unfinished an undertaking they have begun," when Śankachúda arrived and cried out from a- far, " Stop, stop, Garuda, he is not a snake, I am the snake meant for you, so let him go, alas!