The sages in the Naimisha forest ask Suta about death, and he tells them what Vishnu once told Garuda in Vaikuntha. Garuda has flown over all the worlds and seen only life; now he asks about the fearsome way of Yama. Vishnu tells him: in the first days after death the departed takes a body from the rice-balls the family offers; on the thirteenth day the messengers of Yama lead it on alone; the road is long and passes sixteen cities, and before the judgement there is the river Vaitarani. The digest is used at funerals, and some people are afraid to read it at any other time.
The Garuda Purana (Saroddhara), tr. E. Wood and S. V. Subrahmanyam, Sacred Books of the Hindus 9 (1911); Garuda Purana (Wikipedia)
Sources: The Garuda Purana (Saroddhara), tr. E. Wood and S. V. Subrahmanyam, Sacred Books of the Hindus 9 (1911); Garuda Purana (Wikipedia)
The boy Krishna leaps into the Yamuna pool poisoned by the serpent Kaliya, is bound in his coils while Vrindavan weeps on the bank, then dances on his hoods until the serpent's wives beg for his life, and sends him back to the sea.
To free his mother Vinata, Garuda flies to steal the amrita; on the way he eats an elephant and a tortoise on a branch so heavy it breaks, carries the branch with its hanging sages until they bless him, fights through the gods' defences, and wins from Vishnu a place above him and from Indra a friendship.
Indra's charioteer Matali chooses the naga Sumukha as husband for his daughter, but Garuda has marked Sumukha as his next meal; when Indra gives the snake long life, Garuda storms in boasting that he carries Vishnu on one feather, and Vishnu lays one arm on him.
After the head's verdict that one god did all the fighting, Bhima is ashamed of his boast, and Krishna carries him on Garuda to a vast lake in Lanka whose bottom he cannot reach, the place, Krishna says, where Kumbhakarna's tongue fell.
Vishnu and Shiva merge into a single form — to end a dispute among devotees, to kill Guhasura whom neither could kill alone, or at Parvati's prayer to reconcile two serpent kings. Shiva is the right half, Vishnu the left, in every telling.
Genuine three-god scenes carved on Ellora's Kailasa: Lingodbhava with Brahma and Vishnu searching the pillar, Tripurantaka with Brahma as charioteer and Vishnu as arrow, and Harihara with Nandi and Garuda.
An elephant seized by a crocodile lifts a lotus and calls on Vishnu, who arrives on Garuda and frees both animal and captor with the discus.
Naraka of Pragjyotisha steals Aditi's earrings; Krishna kills him and returns them, and Aditi blesses Krishna and Satyabhama.