61. Sampathi's Story [Sampathi tells the sage how while trying to protect Jatāyu, its wings got burnt.] Then I informed the sage about the impossible and horrifying act done by me of following the Sun when it was red hot. 61.1 "Oh God like sage, due to my body being wounded I am feeling ashamed and with senses greatly disturbed

62. Sage's Advice to Sampathi [The sage then narrates what would happen to Rāma when he comes to the forest. He tells Sampathi to inform about it to the monkeys. He assures him that he would get back his wings.] "When I addressed the great sage this way, roaring with pain and sorrow, that God like sage meditated for a

63. Sampathi Gets Back Wings [Sampathi tells how he told his son that he should have saved Sītā. Then Sampathi gets back his wings and flies away.] "That expert in conversation told me these and also several other things to encourage me and then went back to his own home." 63.1 "Moving like a snake, slowly and slowly I came

64. Monkeys at Sea Shore [When they reach the sea, all of them loose their confidence. Angada encourages them and requests them to tell how much distance they can jump.] Then those lion hearted monkeys, after being informed by the king of vultures, together jumped with love and screamed. 64.1 After hearing the words of Sampathi, the monkeys came to

65. Capacity of Different Monkeys [All monkeys tell how much they can jump. But it is less than one hundred yojanas. Angada said that he can jump hundred yojanas but not confidant whether he can jump back. Jambhavan says that he is their leader and so he should not do this task and points at Hanuman.] After hearing these words

66. Jambhavan tells Hanuman [Jambhavan tells Hanuman his story and reminds him of his prowess and tells him that he can easily do the task.] After seeing the many hundreds of thousands of the monkey army who were all worried, Jambhavan told Hanuman. 66.1 "Oh valorous one, among the world of monkeys you are the one who is an expert

67. Hanuman Prepares for Jump to Lanka [Hanuman assumes a huge figure and climbs on Mahendra mountain, prepares to jump to Lanka.] Seeing him expanding in size with a wish to leap the hundred yojanas at once and seeing him filled with valour those monkeys left off their sorrow and became happy and cheered him with loud voice and praised

Chapter: 1 Hanuman’s Ocean Crossing [Lava and Kuśa, the sons of Rāma, had sung the entire Rāmāyaṇa as composed by sage Vālmīki in front of Rāma when he was performing the Aśvamedha (horse) sacrifice. This first portion of Sundara Kanda is a part of their narration on the sixteenth day.] [This chapter describes how Hanuman crossed the great ocean to

Chapter: 2 Hanuman's Śrī Lanka Entry [In this chapter the musings of Hanuman on seeing the city of Śrī Lanka, his first impressions about it and his thinking on the strategy he has to adopt is described.] It is wonderful that the great one crossed the great ocean, which was impossible to cross, and stared at Śrī Lanka situated on