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(e) The place of the Horse-necked. (f) The place of the deity presiding over the Brahma weapon. (g) An appellation of Yama. (k) The spot where the suns meet. (i) The place of the four-faced Brahma, (7) The spot of PrajApati. (4) On which Rudra sat when engaged in asceticism, (2 Which had been mentioned by Jambavdn, (m) The emissary of VAsava in his cloud-form is the Wind driving the cloud ; and the passage refers to Hanuman.—T,

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And not brooking that, (Hanuman) with eyes resembling glowing fire, addressed that foremost of mountains, saying,— “What is this that thou hast decided on, that thou showest no compassion for Raghava? But, O Jord of mountains, to-day witness thyself, overpowered by my arms and torn in pieces!” And (anon) on a sudden, he violently rooted up its summit with trees and elepbants and gold, and furnished with thousand varieties ‘of ore,—having its tops torn and _ its slopes aflame. And uprooting it, he sprang into (the bosom of the air), terrifying the worlds containing celestials and the lords thereof. And hymned by countless rangers of the air, that one endowed with the terrific impetuosity of Garura himself, taking that summit furnished with the splendour of the Sun, went along the orbit of the Sun. And near the Sun, that Sun-like one seemed to be another Sun. And with that mountain, the offspring of the bearer of perfumes appeared surpassingly grand, like very Vishnu equipped with the flaming discus having a thousand edges. And seeing him, the monkeys shouted,—and he also, seeing them, shouted in delight. And hearing their tremendous cheers, those residing in Lanka shouted still more dreadfully. And then the high-souled one dropped on that best of mountains in the midst of the monkey-forces; and, bowing down unto the principal monkeys there, he embraced Bibhishana. And then those sons of that king of men, smelling the perfume of that mighty medicine, were then and there healed of their wounds; and the heroic monkeys also sat up. And all the heroic monkeys were instantly healed and cured; and_ those also that were slain (in battle}, through the smell of that best of drugs, sat up, like persons risen after sleep at break of day. Ever since the monkeys and Rakshasas had begun to _ fight, for maintaining honor, all those Rakshasas that were slain there by the mighty monkeys, were thrown into the sea. Then that monkey, the offspring of the bearer of fragrance, endowed with terrific speed, took that medicinal mountain

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(back) unto Himavan and again presented himself before Rama.