विक्रम चरित (उज्जैन सम्राट् विक्रमादित्य - पराक्रम, न्याय एवं ३२ पुतलियों की कथा सटीक)

221 the Moonee, accompanied by the chiefs of the birds and their families, to the sea-shore, where they found both the Titvis engaged in the difficult exploit of drying up the sea. They all fell to, and simultaneously commenced to aid the efforts of the outraged birds: They also forcibly and - unsparingly seized with their sharp talons the largest fishes of the deep, and thus spread death and ruin around. The angel, perceiving the immense loss of his subjects, and the innumerable host opposed to him, was so intimidated that he approached the Garood in the most abject terror, and requested a truce, which was granted after an ample apology had been tendered to the Titvis, and their eggs restored to them uninjured. “This example,” continued the Rajhouse, “serves to show that birds are not to be despised as a weak race. They are endowed by nature with the power of traversing the wide expanse of air, and they are capable of achieving great ends, even that of resenting any wanton or cruel injury inflicted on them.” To the Rajhouse, Charoo on the back of the goose seemed but as a pebble set on a mountain.