Recounting the virtues of Śrī Rāma to Sugrīva, who had due to his love of the pleasures of sense forgotten all about Śrī Rāma's business and was neglecting it even after the advent of autumn - and reminding him of the work of Śrī Rāma, Hanumān urges Sugr∂va to collect an army with a view to conducting a search for Sītā. Awakened to a sense of his duty, Sugrīva enjoins Nīla to dispatch messengers to bring all the Vānara hordes together.