{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry397.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry397.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry397.htm","text":"On to Prasravan's hill they sped\n Where blooming trees their branches spread.\n To Raghu's sons their heads they bent\n And did obeisance reverent.\n Then to their king, by Angad led,\n Each V\u00e1nar chieftain bowed his head;\n And Hanum\u00e1n the brave and bold\n His tidings to the monarch told;\n But first in R\u00e1ma's hand he placed\n The gem that S\u00edt\u00e1's brow had graced:\n 'I crossed the sea: I searched a while\n For S\u00edt\u00e1 in the giants' isle.\n I found her vext with taunt and threat\n By demon guards about her set.\n Her tresses twined in single braid,\n On the bare earth her limbs were laid.\n Sad were her eyes: her cheeks were pale\n As shuddering flowers in winter's gale.\n I stood beside the weeping dame,\n And gently whispered R\u00e1ma's name:\n With cheering words her grief consoled,\n And then the whole adventure told.\n She weeps afar beyond the sea,\n And her true heart is still with thee.\n She gave a sign that thou wouldst know,\n She bids thee think upon the crow,\n And bright mark pressed upon her brow\n When none was nigh but she and thou.\n She bids thee take this precious stone,\n The sea-born gem thou long hast known.\n 'And I', she said, 'will dull the sting\n Of woe by gazing on the ring.\n One little month shall I sustain\n This life oppressed with woe and pain:\n And when the month is ended, I\n The giants' prey must surely die.'\n \n \n426:1b Three Cantos consisting of little but repetitions are omitted. Dadhimukh escapes from the infuriated monkeys and hastens to Sugr\u00edva to report their misconduct. Sugr\u00edva infers that Hanum\u00e1n and his band have been successful in their search, and that the exuberance of spirits and the mischief complained of, are but the natural expression of their joy. Dadhimukh obtains little sympathy from Sugr\u00edva, and is told to return and send the monkeys on with all possible speed.","title":"BOOK V: Canto LXV. : The Tidings.","type":"page"}