Reading Notes: Ramayana Part C

Sugriva and Hanuman

  • Sugriva and Hanuman disguised themselves to ask Rama and Lakshman who they were and what their business was
  • Sugriva told Rama that his brother, Vali, drove him out of his kingdom and kidnapped his wife
  • Hanuman was very happy to see Rama because they saw him as an ally who could help Sugriva
  • Rama and Lakshman also explained that Rama was in exile 
  • Everyone left to meet Sugriva in order to help him from his brother Vali
  • One night Vali was being attacked by an enemy and dragged the enemy into a hole
  • Vali ordered Sugriva to watch the hole until the enemy came out; he watched it for one year
  • Sugriva saw blood spill out of the hole and returned to the kingdom because he thought Vali had been killed
  • Vali had not died and struggled to escape the hole because Sugriva filled it with a mountain
  • Once Vali returned to the kingdom, he was so angry with Sugriva that he took away Sugriva's wife 
  • As hanuman saw other Monkeys make great leaps, he was reluctant because he was not sure if he could
  • Then the story of Hanuman's birth is told 
  • the wind-god had begotten him
  • his mother had borne him in the mountains 
  • Indra casted a bolt at him that broke his jaw
  • Brahma granted him the boon of being invulnerable 
  • Indra gave him the boon of choosing his own death 
  • this gave Hanuman the courage to leap 
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