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Hanuman prepares to leap to Lanka

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Exhorted by Jambavan, Lord Hanuman took on a shape fit for crossing the ocean.1

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Exhorted by the foremost of monkeys, that one famed for his speech, that monkey,the offspring of the Wind-god, gladdening the monkey-hosts, wore (a fit) shape for crossing the ocean.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 66

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.

As he enlarged his body for a crossing of a hundred yojanas, the vanaras saw him filled with sudden energy. At once they put their sorrow aside, cried out in delight, and began to praise the mighty Hanuman.2

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Seeing that foremost of monkeys enlarge his person for crossing over an hundred yojanas, and suddenly filled with energy,(the monkeys) at once renounced sorrow, and, filled with delight, set up ululations and fell to eulogizing the mighty Hanuman.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.

Praised by the elder vanaras, Hanuman grew more radiant. As a lion fills itself with vigor in an open cave, so the son of the Wind filled himself with energy, and his face blazed like a smokeless fire.3

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And as, extolled by the principal elderly monkeys, he became fraught with effulgence, his beauty was great.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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As a lion fills himself with vigor in an open cave, so the son of the Wind-god filled himself with energy. And the face of him, as that intelligent one was filling himself with force, was aflame like a frying-pan, or like unto fumeless fire.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.

Standing among the vanaras, his body hair raised in joy, Hanuman saluted the elders and spoke. He was the son of the Wind, he said, and his equal in all his powers; without once stopping he could circle the great mountain Meru a thousand times.4

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Rising in the midst of the monkeys, Hanuman with his down standing on end through joy, saluting the aged monkeys, said,

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Begot from his loins, I am the son of the fast-coursing and high-souled Wind, coursing swiftly. I am his equal in all these accomplishments. I can, without once stopping, circumambulate the extensive and heaven-cleaving mountain, Meru, for a thousand times.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.

He could dash the ocean with his arms and flood the world with its mountains, rivers and lakes. For each time Vinata's son, the lord of birds, crossed the sky, he could cross it a thousand times, and he could touch the blazing Sun, Lord Surya, before that god travelled from the Rising hill to the Setting hill.5

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And, dashing the ocean with my arms, I can deluge the world with its mountains, rivers and lakes.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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And for once that lord of birds, Vinata's offspring, living on serpents, courseth through the welkin, I can course through it a thousand times. And I can touch the flaming effulgent Sun ere, beginning his journey from the Rising hill, he ascends the Setting hill.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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He told them that his own judgment showed him he would behold Vaidehi, that is Sita, the wife of Lord Rama, and bade the vanaras rejoice. He would leap sheer over Lanka.6

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I perceive through my intelligence, (and my mental motion tallies), that I shall behold Vaidehi. Therefore, ye monkeys, rejoice.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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I shall leap sheer over Lanka. Even this is my impression."

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.

Jambavan was overjoyed. Calling Hanuman son of Kesari and offspring of the Wind, he said that Hanuman had destroyed his kinsmen's great sorrow. By the grace of the saints, with the leave of the elders and the blessing of his superiors, Hanuman should bound over the ocean; until he returned the vanaras would stand on one leg, and their lives would go with him.7

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"O hero! O son of Kesari! O offspring of the Wind! the huge sorrow of thy kindred hath, my child, been destroyed by thee.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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And by the grace of the saints, and with the permission of the aged monkeys, and by the blessing of the superiors, do thou bound over the mighty main. Till thou return, we shall stay on one leg. The lives of all these rangers of the forest shall go along with thee."

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.

Hanuman answered that no one in the world could bear the force of his leap, but the firm, spacious summits of the mountain Mahendra would bear it as he crossed a hundred yojanas.8

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"None in this world would be able to sustain my impetus in the act of bounding.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Here are these summits, firm and spacious, of this mountain, Mahendra, thronged with crags. I shall rush forward from these summits of Mahendra, interspersed with trees and adorned with masses of ore. And as I leap over a hundred yojanas, these mighty summits shall sustain my impetus."

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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He climbed Mahendra, the best of mountains, and began to range from one great summit to another. Hurt by his arms, the mountain cried out like a mad elephant tormented by a lion, and water rushed from the rocks around.9

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Then he equalling the Wind, that monkey, the son of the Wind-god, pounder of enemies, ascended that best of mountains, Mahendra;

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Ascending (Mahendra), that foremost of monkeys endeued with exceeding strength, and resembling Mahendra himself in prowess, began to range from one mighty summit to another.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Thereat, hurt by the arms of that high-souled one, that mighty mountain began to cry, like a mighty mad elephant tormented by a lion. And water rushed out of masses of rocks scattered around.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.

Then, concentrating his whole self on his energy, the heroic Hanuman went to Lanka in his mind.10

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And that intelligent, magnanimous and heroic monkey--destroyer of hostile heroes,--endowed with speed, concentrating his soul on his energy, mentally went to Lanka.

Valmiki Ramayana, translated by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Kishkindha 67

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Manmatha Nath Dutt’s English says ‘monkey’; here we say vanara.