
Who is the king of Kosala and who can carry out any job without effort. I am Hanuman, the son of wind god, exterminator of enemies and the servant of Rama

and victory to the king Sugreeva who is protected by Raghava. Victory to the very strong Rama and similarly victory to the very strong Lakshmana. In the resounding echo of the sound of clapping of Hanuman, birds fell on the floor out of fear and Hanuman announced loudly as follows. Hanuman the son of wind-god made his body to a very big size and made Lanka shake by his voice and clapped his hands with enthusiasm. The mountain like Hanuman with immeasurable power beat his tail on the floor and made war like sound. They holding spears and Thomara stood strongly surrounding Hanuman armed with thorn sticks, long spears and tridents.

They hit the monkey chief with strange maces, gold bordered pestles and arrows similar to the sun. They moved very fast and reached the monkey who was sitting on the tower and waiting and opposed him like insects oppose the fire. All of them with a desire for war and with a desire to catch the monkey left the house armed with thorny sticks and an arm called Kotta 25-26 who had very big teeth and who were horrible looking were eighty thousand in number. Those valorous Kinkaras who had very big belly. That shining one gave order to destroy the pride of Hanuman to Rakshasa called Kinkara who are similar to him and are valorous. 22įrom the two eyes of the angry one tears dropped as if oil drops mixed with flames dropped from two lit lamps. Hearing the words of the Rakshasis, Ravana the king of Rakshasas, rolled his eyes in anger and burnt like the sacrificial fire. Hey lord of Rakshasas, who would dare to talk with that Sita who has been brought by you out of desire? Can the life stay for long with such a one? 21 Kindly be pleased to accord a severe punishment to that terrible one which talked with Sita and which destroyed the forest. That luxuriously growing Simshuba tree alone below which she sits of her own accord has been left without touching by that monkey. But where is tiresomeness to that monkey and the fact is she has been saved by the monkey. Has it been done to protect Janaki or has it been done because he became tired, we do not know. But it has not even touched the place where Sita the daughter of Janaka is sitting. There is no place in that forest which has not been destroyed by it. Your forest of the harem, which is surprisingly pretty and thus a stealer of hearts, and which is filled with many animals was completely destroyed by it. Is he an emissary of Indra? Is he an emissary of Kubhera? Is it possible that he has been send by Rama to search Sita? 15 That doe eyed Sita who is the daughter of Janaka did not like to tell about him to us, in spite of our enquiring in various ways. Hey king, in the middle of Asoka forest there is a monkey which is greatly valorous and which has a great form, which is talking to Sita. Those ugly faced Rakshasis started describing about the monkey, who can take different forms, in front of Ravana. This article is part of “Sundara Kandam of Sage Valmiki” 21 Sunderkand: Burning of the city of Lanka (Chapter 54).


18 The crossing of the sea from Lanka (Chapter 56).17 Thinking about future action (Chapter 59).15 Destruction of Honey forest (Chapter 61).13 Informing about the destruction of the honey forest (Chapter 63).12 Return of Hanuman and other monkeys (Chapter 64).11 Hurting of the security staff of the forest (Chapter 62).10 Informing the message of Sita (Chapter 67).9 Seeking clarifications of the message of Sita (Chapter 66).8 Telling of the memento news and giving of the hair brooch (Chapter 65).7 Further news about the consolation of Sita (Chapter 68).4 Searching inside the Asoka forest (Chapter 14).3 Crashing of hopes of Hanuman (Chapter 13).
