The Sundara Kanda-Rai Bahadur Lala Baij Nath

1 – 3. Sri Mahadeva said : Wishing to cross the ocean which extended for a hundred yojanas and was the abode of crocodiles, the son of the wind and the embodiment of bliss, having meditated upon Rama the supreme self, said : "Let all the monkeys see me going by the path of the welkin. Like an unfailing arrow shot by Rama, this day shall I see the wife of Rama and daughter of Janaka.

4 – 5. "Blessed I shall again see Raghava. By remembering his name at the time of death, a man having crossed this ocean of worldly life goes to the supreme abode, what is to be said of me whose messenger, am carrying his own ring as a token.

6 – 7. "Meditating upon him in my heart I shall cross this little ocean." So saying Hanuman extended his arms and tail, made his neck straight and looking upwards contracted his two feet and facing southwards leaped into the ocean with the speed of the wind.

8 – 9. In the sight of the gods in heaven speedily he went off. Seeing him going with the speed of the wind, the gods in order to test the strength of the son of the wind, said; "This very powerful monkey of the strength of wind is going.

10 – 11. "we do not know if he has the strength to enter Lanka." Thus, thinking impelled by curiosity those hosts of gods said to the mother of the serpents called Sursa:- "Do thou go and throw some obstacle in the way of the chief of the monkeys.

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