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ELiarixe Hanuman’s speech,uttered meekly, fraught with morality, and reflecting honor upon Sugriva, Angada said,— “Firmness, and mental sanctity, mercy, candour, prowess, and patience, are not in Sugriva. He that, while her so is living, appropriateth the beloved queen of his elder brother, mother unto him by morality, is hated .of all beings). How can he that could cover up the mouth of the cave, when he had been desired by his brother gone on martial missioa, to guard the same,—(how can fe) know morality? Whose good office remembereth e who could forget the renowned Raghava himself of mighty deeds, after having, in the name of truth, taken his hand? How can he reap religious merit, that directed us to scarch Sité here, from fear of Lakshmana, and not from fear of unrighteousness? What noble person,

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in especial, sprung in his race, shall any longer repose confidence in that impious one of unstable soul who hath run amuck of morality? Meritorious or otherwise, how can Sugriva, having installed in the kingdom me, son (of his enemy) and the enemy sprung in his race,—suffer me to live? Howcan I, whose counsels have been revealed, who have transgressed, and who have been deprived of my power, repairing to Kishkindha like one forlorn and feeble, live? For the sake of his kingdom, Sugriva, wily, cunning and cruel, shall put me in solitary confinement. For me fasting to death is better than being confined and suffering the consequent misery. Do ye grant me your permision; and go to your homes, ye monkeys. I vow before you, to the palace I will never repair. At this very spot will I fast for death ; as death is good for me. Bowing unto the king as well as unto the powerful Raghava, ye should communicate my well-being unto Sugriva—lord of apes—and my health and peace unto my mother Uma. And it behoves you also to console my mother, Tara. Naturally fond of her son, and overflowing with tenderness, that lorn one, hearing of my death at this place, shall certainly renounce her life.” Having said this, Angada, saluting the elders, with a woebegone face entered the earth covered with grass. When he had entered, those foremost monkeys, stricken with sorrow, weeping shed warm tears from thcir eyes. And censuring Sugriva and praising Vali, they, surrounding Angada, determined to starve themselves to death. Taking to heart the speech of V4li’s son, those prime monkeys, sipping water, sat down facing the East. And sitting on the edge of the water on grass pointing to the south, the foremost monkeys, wishing for surcease, thought within themselves,—‘Even this is fit for us.’ And as they spoke of the exile of Rama and the demise of Dagaratha, the carnage in Janasthana, the slaying of Jatayu, the ravishment of Vaidchi, the st!aughter of Vali, and the ire of Rama, the monkeys were seized with fear.

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When those monkeys resembling mountain-summits had entered in, they set up cries, which, like unto the rumbling of clouds, making the sky resound, made that mountain with its rills reverberate.