Garuda's abduction of Queen Kakati

Garuda's abduction of Queen Kakati is a famous Buddhist tale about the former lives of the Buddha, called a Jataka.

In this story, the Buddha was born in a previous life as the king of Benares, and therefore was still a Bodhisattva, and ruled with his beloved queen, Kakati.

[1][2] The royal solar bird Garuda came to the court disguised as a man and gambled with the king.

[1] When Garuda heard of the king's great sadness and of his true love for Kakati, he restored her to him.

This secret was divulged to one of the Garudas by the ascetic Karambiya, who taught him how to seize a nāga by the tail and force him to vomit up his stone (Pandara Jātaka, J.518).