- 4.1. Scorched by the soothing spring
- 4.2. The accomplisher in action
- 4.3. rAma divines hanumAn’s ability
- 4.4. hanumAn visualizes a win-win alliance
- 4.5. They shake hands and solemnize the friendship extraordinary
- 4.6. The alert act of sItA works as hoped
- 4.7. Reassuring mates strike a chord
- 4.8. sugrIva pours his heart out to rAma
- 4.9. vAlI slays old enemy, makes a new one
- 4.10. vAlI bullies and banishes sugrIva
- 4.11. rAma offers himself for a test!
- 4.12. sugrIva bruised in the battle of lookalikes
- 4.13. To kishkindhA, one more time
- 4.14. rAma reassures sugrIva
- 4.15. tArA counsels, vAlI rejects
- 4.16. One arrow to end the enmity
- 4.17. vAlI seeks answer from rAma
- 4.18. rAma preaches dharma, vAlI realizes folly
- 4.19. Her worst fears come true
- 4.20. Wisdom in times of grief
- 4.21. hanumAn pacifies tArA
- 4.22. vAlI’s valuable counsel and his end
- 4.23. tArA’s monologue with vAlI
- 4.24. sugrIva scorched by remorse
- 4.25. Heavenward vAlI goes to the elements
- 4.26. sugrIva appointed and anointed
- 4.27. An ode to fraternal love
- 4.28. rAma’s hearty take on the rains
- 4.29. Timely advice from the able minister
- 4.30. Rains recede, autumn arrives
- 4.31. Angry lakshmaNa accosts the weary vAnaras
- 4.32. hanumAn says, take it on the chin!
- 4.33. tArA saves the day for sugrIva
- 4.34. lakshmaNa rains wrath on sugrIva
- 4.35. tArA to the rescue, again
- 4.36. sugrIva back to senses, and they chill
- 4.37. sugrIva cracks the whip
- 4.38. sugrIva takes charge, friends meet
- 4.39. For rAma they come in crores and crores of crores
- 4.40. The quest begins with the eastern quarter
- 4.41. Star studded team for the southern quest
- 4.42. Quest until where the sun sets
- 4.43. Northern expedition till the abode of the Gods
- 4.44. The master knows who will accomplish
- 4.45. Call him stern and unsparing, call him sugrIva
- 4.46. Taking note while being chased!
- 4.47. Team south the only hope as the month passes by
- 4.48. South bound search squad at work
- 4.49. Fighting the southbound spirits!
- 4.50. vAnaras in the wonderland!
- 4.51. A much needed fueling break
- 4.52. Gracious host enlivens the mission
- 4.53. The vAnaras all at sea!
- 4.54. Sowing seeds of doubt and saving the mission
- 4.55. They decide to give up!
- 4.56. They encounter a salivating sampAtI
- 4.57. Long gone jaTAyu saves the mission
- 4.58. sampAti saves the day and their lives
- 4.59. An eyewitness account
- 4.60. sampAti sees the seer
- 4.61. Misadventure of the mighty vultures
- 4.62. Sage prophesies rAma’s advent
- 4.63. The prophecy comes true and sampAti flies again
- 4.64. vAnaras freeze by the sea
- 4.65. Who shall be the hero?
- 4.66. jAmbavAn exhorts the hero
- 4.67. hanumAn wipes vAnaras’ worries away
Here we submit prayerfully and humbly the faithful translation of the SrImath vAlamiKi rAmAyaNam’s kishkindhA kAnDam – Frendship extraordinary at the lotus feet of lord SrIrAma.
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