Śrīmad Vālmīki Rāmāyana (English Translation)

Leaping up the Puspaka in the course of his quest for Sītā in the palace of Rāvana, Hanumān gazes from that vantage-ground on the hosts of women lying asleep in the women's apartments in diverse stat…

A further description of the aerial car, Puspaka.

The poet incidentally draws a pen-picture of Rāvana’s palace and his aerial car known by the name of Puspaka.

Reaching the palace of Rāvana, which served as an adornment to Lankā, and having looked for Sītā in the adjoining mansions of Prahasta and others, Hanumān now enters the palace of Rāvana.

Even though seeing ogres and ogresses of various grades and orders while the moon was ascending the heavens, Hanumān gives way to anxiety on his not being able to find Sītā.

Reflecting on the difficulty of penetrating into Lankā, which was strongly guarded by ogres, Hanumān further contracts his body and enters it at moonrise.

Reminding Hanumān of his descent from the loins of the wind-god through Añjanā and of the circumstances which led to his getting the name of Hanumān and also how he received boons from Brahmā (the cr…

Questioned by Angada, Gaja and other leaders of monkey hordes proclaim each his own leaping capacity ranging in an increasing degree from ten Yojanas or eighty miles to ninety Yojanas or seven hundre…

On the monkey heroes getting despondent at the sight of the (Indian) ocean, which they found difficult to cross, Angada inquires of them if anyone of them was capable of leaping across the sea dividi…

Even while Sampāti was thus talking with the monkeys, a pair of beautiful wings shoot forth on his sides. Feeling transported with joy at their sight and showing them to the monkeys, nay, assuring th…

Relating to Sage Niśākara the circumstances which led to his being burnt, Sampāti takes before the sage a vow to give up the ghost by leaping from a mountain-peak.

Having inspired confidence in the monkeys, Sampāti proceeds to relate to Angada and others, who longed to hear more about Sītā, the story of Sītā's abduction in greater detail. He tells them how, hav…

Interrogated by Jāmbavān as to how Sampāti came to know about Sītā's, abduction by Rāvana, the vulture tells him that it was his son, Supārśwa, who related to him how, one day, while he was ranging a…

Sampāti tells Angada how having once soared with his younger brother to the neighbourhood of the solar orb in his eagerness to test their relative strength and flying power, he had his own wings burn…

Having helped Sampāti to climb down the mountain, Angada narrates to him the whole story from the entry of Śrī Rāma into the Dandaka forest to his own fasting.