[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Drama (rūpaka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays) › [Nagananda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda) › 4.27 # Nagananda 4.27 Nāgānanda 4.27 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.27) asminvadhyaśilātale nipatitaṃ śeṣānahīn rakṣituṃ nirbhidyāśanidaṇḍacaṇḍatarayā cañcvādhunā vakṣasi / bhoktuṃ bhoginamuddharāmi tarasā raktāmbaraprāvṛtaṃ digdhaṃ madbhayadīryyamāṇahṛdayaprasyandinevāsṛjā // > Garuda (looking at the hero). > Speedily will I catch up and eat this Nága, dressed in red garments, who looks as if besmeared with blood, which gushes from his heart that has burst through fear of me. I will first split open with my beak, which is fiercer than the fierceness of a thunderbolt, the breast of this one, who has fallen on the surface of the execution rock, to save the rest of Nágas. > — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World - [Previous: 4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.26) - [Next: 4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.28) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4) ## Translations (1) - [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.4.p106) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English ## Linked texts (2) - [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.4.26.p1) — Sanskrit - [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.2.75) — Harṣa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.27) · Pramāṇa