{"collection":"Hinduism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rys_rys4053_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rys_rys4053_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_rys_rys4053_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rys/rys4053.htm","summary":"This is a passage from Valmiki's *Ramayana* \u2014 specifically from the Kishkindha Kanda \u2014 presented in both IAST transliteration and Devanagari script, placing it squarely in the Sanskrit epic tradition. The scene depicts Hanuman strategically assessing and then persuading Angada (son of the slain monkey-king Vali) not to rebel against Sugriva and instead return to the fold. Hanuman first catalogs Angada's formidable qualities \u2014 eight-fold intelligence, fourteen virtues, growing splendor like the waxing moon, wisdom matching Brihaspati \u2014 before deliberately deploying the third of the four classical political means (*up\u0101yas*): *bheda*, or sowing division. He divides the monkey troops through rhetorical skill, then turns threatening arguments on Angada himself: the cave offers no real protection against Lakshmana's arrows, the fickle monkeys will abandon him the moment he holds out, and he will be left utterly alone. The passage's distinctive move is having Hanuman \u2014 typically celebrated for loyalty and self-sacrifice \u2014 here act as a cold political strategist, manipulating allies and engineering fear to serve Rama's mission. It closes with a conciliatory offer: submit now and Sugriva, who has no other heir and loves Angada's mother, will rightfully install Angada in the kingdom.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Ramayana in Sanskrit: Book 4: Chapter 53","tradition":"Hinduism","translated_text":null,"word_count":533}