Bharata told Lord Rama that he was returning the kingdom Rama had given him at the request of his mother Kaikeyi. Then the preparations for the installation began. The wives of King Dasharatha decked Sita with charming ornaments with their own hands. King Sugriva and Lord Hanuman, graceful like Mahendra, bathed, put on celestial clothes and excellent kundalas, and went out to view the city.1
Rama rode towards the city in his car. Bharata took the reins, Satrughna held the umbrella and Lakshmana fanned him with chowries. Before the ministers, Rama told of Sugriva's friendship, of the prowess of the Wind-god's son and of the works the monkeys had done; and the people of Ayodhya were astonished to hear of the works of the monkeys and the prowess of the rakshasas.2
Then Rama's younger brother asked Sugriva to order some to bring water for Rama's installation. Sugriva gave four leading monkeys four golden jars set with many jewels and told them to return by dawn with the jars filled with the water of the four oceans. So addressed, the monkeys rose swiftly into the sky like quick-coursing vultures. Jambavan, Hanuman, the monkey Vegadarshi and Rishabha brought jars filled with water from five hundred rivers; and the virtuous-souled son of the Wind-god, gifted with every accomplishment and with the prowess of Garuda and the Wind-god, swiftly brought water from the Northern Ocean in a jewelled jar.3
Seeing the water the leading monkeys had brought, Satrughna and his ministers told the chief priests and friends of it. Then the self-controlled Vasishtha, advanced in years, with other Brahmanas, placed Rama with Sita on a jewelled seat. When the high-souled Vasishtha had decked Rama with the crown, the ritvij priests dressed him in celestial garments. Satrughna held the white umbrella, Sugriva, lord of the monkeys, took the white chowrie, and Vibhishana, lord of the rakshasas, took up another chowrie like the moon.4
Then Rama gave gifts. To the twice-born he gave a million horses, a hundred thousand cows and a hundred thousand bulls. To Sugriva he gave a celestial garland, brilliant as the rays of the sun and set with gold and jewels; and to Angada, Vali's son, two armlets of vaidurya, brilliant as the rays of the moon.5
To Sita, Rama gave an excellent pearl necklace set with precious gems, with celestial clothes and many fine ornaments. Sita, the daughter of King Janaka, took the necklace from her person and, remembering the services of the Wind-god's son, began to give it to him; and again and again she looked at her lord and at the monkeys. Rama, who could read gestures, saw this and told her, calling her fortunate and beautiful lady, to give the necklace to him with whom she was pleased. Then lotus-eyed Sita gave it to the son of the Wind-god.6
Hanuman, foremost of monkeys, in whom energy, forgiveness, fame, skill, prowess, humility, good policy, manliness, valour and intellect always dwell, shone with that necklace like a mountain made beautiful by moonbeams and white clouds. All the other elder and leading monkeys were honoured in turn with clothes and ornaments. Honoured by Rama of unwearied deeds with jewels and other wished-for things, Vibhishana, Sugriva, Hanuman, Jambavan and the other leading monkeys returned, delighted, to their own dwellings.7