Chapter 7: The great monkey army

When the monkeys were looking for Sita, they were going to commitsuicide on account of their not being able to find her. Angada wasputting the kusa grass, and he said, "I'm going to die. I can't findSita." The other monkeys said, "No, no, there is a nice secure placewhere we can go to live." Hanuman chastised them. "This isillusion," he said. Hanuman got so upset, and he was chastisingAngada and the rest of the monkeys. "What are you trying to do? Doyou want to end your life in a prestigious way, or do you want to gofor some `security'?" They were on a mission for Ramacandra. Theyhad to find Sita and then come back with that information. Thirtythousand monkeys went on that mission. That was only in the south.In the north there were eighty thousand monkeys. And because eastand west were not so important, there was only ten thousand in thoseplaces. The greatest corporals and generals of Sugriva were ordainedto go, and they were told not to come back until they found Sita.Unfortunately all the other groups came back. The north, the eastand the west. But the southern party was still going. Hanuman,Jambavan, Angada and Nila were the greatest leaders of that group.We have discussed Hanuman's appearance already. Now we will discussJambavan. Jambavan is the oldest created being in the universe,apart from Brahma. When Brahma was thinking of making the creationand he had the vision of the Lord, the Lord shook hands with him andgave him the information of Bhagavatam, aham evasya evagre. "I ambefore everything and after everything." Brahma was contemplating tocreate, and he was thinking, "How great is this creation, and how amI going to do it?" In the meantime, the Garbhodakasayi Visnu waslaying down on the snake, and from both of his ears, two drops ofsweat came out. One drop became Madhu, a great demon, and the otherbecame Kaitava, another great demon. Madhu and Kaitava came and met,and shook hands. They looked back and said, "We must finish this."This is a demon. You take shelter of something, and then when youare done with it you destroy it. This Rakshasa mentality of Madhuand Kaitava created a bad atmosphere and Brahma started sweating.The sweat came from his four faces. Lord Visnu got up and looked atMadhu and Kaitava and said, "O great personalities Madhu and Kaitava,please give me a benediction." They said, "This is easy! He issurrendering to us. Do you know who we are?" they addressed him."Oh, you are the great Madhu and Kaitava, supremely powerfulpersons." They said, "What benediction do you want, Visnu?" Visnusaid, "You give me a benediction that I can fight with you." "Oh,you want a fight?" they said. "That is what we are expecting too.Now it is more prestigious for us, because it is our benediction.Yes you can fight with us, but one thing. If ever you think that youwant to kill us, you can only kill us in a place where there is noearth, no water, no air, no fire, no ether, no mind, no intelligenceand no false ego. You can kill us in that spot." That means thatthey cannot be killed anywhere in the universe, that was what theywere thinking. They didn't know anything beyond the universe,because they were demons. Then Visnu started fighting with them, andit went on for a long time. While the fight was going on, Brahma wassweating again because of the whole evil atmosphere created by Madhuand Kaitava. This time with the sweat came a small entity, and itwas there on his cheek. It was moving around there. Brahma said,"What is this?" and he looked at it. It started growing, so he threwit on the floor. It grew more, and it was a bear. No species werepresent at that time. "What is this?" Brahma said. Black bear withso much hair on the body, and it grew and grew and became so strong.It spoke in Sanskrit. He spoke to Brahma, "You have created me, sowhere shall I go?" Brahma said, "I created something without myknowledge. You go to Jambunada." That was one piece of land in thewater of dissolut ion, Jambunada-ksetra. So immediately he enteredJambunada, and he sat down there and was looking around. What he sawwas Madhu and Kaitava fighting. He was clapping his hands andwhistling, and he called out, "Wonderful! Hit him on the head!" Hewas the audience. Visnu was going up into the sky and picking themup and throwing them. They were so strong, coming from the ear ofVisnu, so they were giving a good fight. Garbhodakasayi Visnu waslaying down on Sesa naga for a long time, so he wanted to have somepastime. He wanted to have some entertainment, so he createdsomebody and started fighting. He took Madhu and Kaitava on his lap,and then with his hand he crushed them. They were finished, becausethere was no earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence orfalse ego. His was a transcendental body. Jambavan jumped up anddown and said, "Wonderful, wonderful fight! Can I see more?" Visnusaid, "You wait for the creation to start. Then there will be somany fights." So creation started, and the Manvantaras came one byone. There was a great dissolution, and Satyavrata was on the boat,and a golden fish came, a huge big fish with a horn. With Vasuki,the snake, they tied the fish's horn yo that boat. The sapta-rishiswere there and Jambavan was sitting there looking. "Aah, what a nicefish," he said, and he circumambulated the fish. The fish wascircumambulating the whole universe. In this way Jambavan had a goodengagement at that time. Jambavan will not die, he is a ciran-jiva.He was getting old, but he was quite strong. Then Kurma-avatar came,and Jambavan witnessed that also. He also was there whenVaraha-avatar slapped Hiranyaksa. Hiranyaksa was slapped and he wentup circling around, and while he was circling around his eyes cameout of his sockets, and Jambavan was playing with them. "What awonderful fight!" That was finished, and he saw Nrsimhadeva also.And then Vamanadeva appeared. When Vamanadeva grew into a huge bigfigure lifting his leg an d piercing the universe from the top,Jambavan, in six moments, circled this great form of Trivikramaeighteen times. That was the speed of Jambavan. He was in ecstasy,"Oh! What a beautiful form!" He was going around and around,eighteen times in six moments. When he was coming back down he wasin so much ecstasy, and he scratched Mount Meru with his toe-nails.Meru got upset. Meru came in person and said, "Hey, you dirty bear!What are you doing to me? You are touching me with your foot. Eventhe sapta-rishis don't do this, they float over me. They don't setfoot on me. You are doing this, so you become old. Because you areyoung and so fast, you have offended me. You become old and weak."He cursed him. So Jambavan became very old. Meru told him,"Although you are old, when the pastimes of Lord Ramacandra come, youwill do a lot of service for him." This was Jambavan. And Jambavanwas called by Sugriva, who said to him, "Jambavan, you are theoldest. There is nothing that you don't know. There is no demigodthat you don't know. There is no avatar that you haven't seen.There is no ocean that you don't know. You know everything in thiscreation. So you must help Angada, the son of Bali. Find out whereSita is." Jambavan agreed, and he told Angada, "Don't worry. Icannot fly like before, but I know every place. I can be your guidein this area of south India. Somehow we will find Mother Sita."Then there was Nila. Nila was also a Brahma-putra, a mental son ofBrahma, and he was an engineer, a chemist and a scientist. He wasalso a bear, a bear scientist. So this scientist could float stones,reduce and increase the density of stone, he was such a physicist andchemist that he could take different things, mix them up and creatediverse effects of colour, smell, and various feelings. He couldchange feelings by chemical combination. He could take something andmix with something else, and you would feel miserable. By anothercombination he could make yo one's mind by chemicals, without thatperson having to take it, unlike the drugs of today. He constructeda kingdom in Kishkinda which was so strong. It was complete stone,no cement or concrete. Just stone on top of stone. It wasconstructed so each stone was holding another, and it was a huge bigpalace, very strong. This is Nila. Hanuman, Jambavan, Nila andAngada set forward with thirty thousand vanaras. They lookedeverywhere, but couldn't find anything. Then they came to theVindhya mountains. By the time they had crossed the forest, whichhad no leaves (big trees are there, but they are only branchesbecause one rishi's son cursed the forest, "You will become barren").So many trees are there but there are no leaves. No leaves means noflowers, and no flowers means no fruit, so all the monkeys werehungry. Already they had been about three weeks with no water and nofood. They didn't know what to do. They saw a black cave in frontof the Vindhya mountains. Hanuman said to Angada, "We are greatwarriors, so we must have some thrill. Let us enter this cave." Allthe monkeys said, "No, no, we are not going inside this cave.Already there is no water, no food, and if you go inside this cavethere will be no light. And if you go deeper there will be no air,and we will all die." So Hanuman said, "Whoever wants to go, raisetheir hand." So Jambavan, Angada, Nila and of course Hanuman, and afew other monkeys, they all raised their hands. Hanuman said, "Allright, hold my tail." So Angada was holding his tail, and Nila washolding Angada's tail. Jambavan was in the middle, because he wasold and they didn't want to lose him, and there were other monkeysand all of them started walking into this cave. The only symptomsthat they saw was some birds coming from inside, and their wings werewet. Hanuman said, "Look, their wings are wet. That means somewater is there. And if the birds are coming from inside the cavethat means some people must be living there . It must be a niceplace, so everyone should come." He was preaching like this, and themonkeys were one by one joining. A few were standing there andwondering what to do. They thought, "Hanuman, Jambavan and everyoneelse are all going, and we are standing here. There is no waterhere, and they are the only protection for us. If they are gone,what will we do?" So they also decided to go. All the monkeysjoined, they all went into the cave. Every five minutes Jambavan wasshouting the names of all the different monkeys, just to check thateveryone was there, because it was so dark, you couldn't seeanything. And after crossing eighty miles in complete darkness,finally there was a glimmer of light coming. Hanuman shouted, "Rama!Rama! Rama! There is light here. Maybe there are some people and wecan get some food. We are hungry monkeys." So they all went towardsthe light and discovered a beautiful city inside the cave. And somany mansions were there. These mansions were all made with gold andrubies and diamonds, they couldn't believe their eyes. There waslakes and lotus flowers, nice creepers and fruits. Angada said,"Don't believe this. It may be the work of some demon, that as soonas we go in he will swallow us. Don't touch anything. Keepleaping." They were leaping from one place to another, and then theyleaped into a mansion. Without making any sound they were inside andlooking around. They found one woman who was dressed in tiger skin,with matted locks of hair. She had a trident in her hand. "What isthis?" they said. "She looks like a babaji, and she is in thiswonderful palace." Hanuman went in front, and he folded his hands.Hanuman is very good in talking. He gave a smile. He said, "Pleasetell us who you are. You look like a very spiritually advancedperson." Flattery. "I hope you are not a demoness. But you don'tlook like one, you look very pious. So you must tell us who youare." She said, "First you tell me who you are. How did you getinside this place? This is a mysti nd human beings, gandharvas,vanaras, can never come here. Only celestials can come here."Jambavan was mumbling, "Yes, yes, they are all celestials. They onlylook like monkeys." Angada asked him, "What did you say?" "No, no,"Jambavan replied. "I am just telling something old." Jambavan hadbeen in Rama-lila before, and every time they had gone in search ofSita, and every time they had gone into this cave also. Every timehe saw something like that, he would say, because he has seen it somany times. They were seeing it for the first time, because demigodskeep changing, but Jambavan is the same Jambavan. Hanuman said, "Weare all servants of Lord Ramacandra, the son of Dasaratha." Then shesaid, "This Ramacandra, I don't think he's the son of an earthlyking, because otherwise how just by chanting his name could you crossthat dark cave. It is not possible for anyone to do that. This mustbe an incarnation of Visnu." Jambavan said, "She also knows so much.I know that he is an incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and I also knowwho will find Sita." Some monkeys said, "What did you say?"Jambavan said, "Don't listen to me. I'm just an old bear, and oldpeople always mumble like this." Hanuman and this lady got into agood conversation. Hanuman pleased her, and she told her identity.She was a friend of Hema, and Hema was the daughter of Mount Meru.This Hema was once being kept captive in that city by one great demoncalled Mayasura. He was a great magician. Indra came, and he senthis vadra, and he finished this demon Maya. He took charge of Hema,and she became Indra's wife. Hema was alone in that huge big magicalcity, so Indra requested Meru to send his daughter so they could havesome association. Hema had gone out somewhere, so that is why thislady was there. She was an ascetic, and she believed in worship ofimpersonal Brahman, and mukti. She was there with tiger skin andtrident. This was the story. Hanuman said, "We are very hungry, and we are monkeys. Please give us something to eat." "No problem,"she said. "You just go into this garden and you can eat plenty offruits, fill your stomachs." So the whole army went into thisbeautiful garden of Mayasura, and they ate stomachs full. They cameto drink water, and after drinking water she supplied them with winewhich they also took. They took a little wine. The wine back thenwas just a drink, not an intoxicant. In this way they enjoyednicely, and they asked her, "You please tell us how we can now getout of the cave." She said, "Get out of this cave? No, you cannever get out of this cave." They said, "What? You've fed usnicely, you've given us so much nice drink, and now you're going tokeep us in prison?" Hanuman took his club and said, "You want to seethis?" She said, "Wait a minute, you just ate in my house. Youcan't fight with me. I said, `You can't get out of the cave'. Inever said that you won't go out of the cave. All of you, close youreyes." They all closed their eyes. And then she said, "Now openyour eyes." And when they opened their eyes they were not there. Infront of them was a huge big ocean, Mahodadhi. They were somewherebetween Rameshvara and Puri, but this land extended so many milesdown in Treta-yuga. The Ceylon that we are seeing today is not thesame Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is further down, because Hanuman flew onehundred yojanas. A yojana is eight miles. Eight hundred miles isnot the distance from Rameshvara to Ceylon. You can reach it inforty five minutes by a boat. It's not that far. It is mentionedthat they were on top of a mountain from where Hanuman flew, and inthe area of Rameshvaram you don't find any mountains. So that areafrom where Hanuman jumped, the Gandha-madana hills, is much moredown. And that is all eaten up by ocean. We shouldn't think thatthis was the shore where they were standing. They were miles down atthat time, because the ocean comes and eats the land. Hanuman andthe others saw this Mahodadhi ocea n. It was very fierce. Angadasaid, "We have come to the end of the land. Where is Sita? We havenot found her. How can we go back, now that is a month? We startedon the full moon night, and now it is again full moon night."Angada felt very bad. He said, "Bring some darba grass." He placedit with the tips facing the north. He was going to do aPrayopavesha. Prayopavesha means that when a great personalitycannot accomplish a task which he promised he would do, he would siton the kusa grass and leave his body by fasting. He was sittingthere on the kusa grass. Hanuman was sitting there with his head inhis hands looking at the ocean. He thought, "We have come to ablank disc. What is going on now? Should I go back or forward?What should I do?" Jambavan was taking rest, because he was tiredafter drinking wine and eating so many fruits. Other monkeys werewandering around and looking here and there. Hanuman saw themonkeys, and he asked them, "What are you going to do?" They said,"We have a good idea. We will go back to the cave. Plenty offruits, plenty of wine. You cannot get out. If you cannot get out,you cannot get in, and no-one will come to trouble us. We will behappy there." Hanuman said, "What a silly idea. This is maya.Ramacandra is our Lord. What do you need this security for? Youwant to take shelter in wine and fruit? You must be a monkey." Hechastised them. Angada was sitting there chanting mantras, andpreparing to leave his body. Hanuman also approached him. "Angada,you are a prince. What are you doing looking to the north, sittingon kusa grass? This is not meant for strong people. Look at yourshoulders, they're so strong. They are supposed to be for fightingfor Lord Ramacandra. Here you are fasting, preparing to die. Whatare you going to accomplish because of this? You will die. Andeveryone will say, `That son of Bali is a useless monkey. He diedbecause he couldn't accomplish his mission." Angada said, "You aresaying all this, but you tell me, what are we supposed to do? If Igo back Sugriva will kill me and take the kingdom. Already heplanned somehow to kill my father. Now he has got a reason to killme. He will say, `Now you didn't accomplish your mission so I willkill you.' No-one will say anything, and he will have the kingdom.Let him have the kingdom anyway, let me just die. At least he won'tdie." Hanuman realised he would have to use politics here. Samadhana bheda danda. There are four ways of preaching. First youspeak nicely, and then you offer something, then you make a bheda, adifference of opinion between the groups. "Do you know what he saidabout you?" If none of those work, you use the stick, danda.Hanuman thought, now I have to use bheda, politics. He said, "Yes,Sugriva is like that. He may take the whole kingdom, but your motheris there. If you die, she will certainly suffer. He will give herno food, no cloth and no respect. She will beg in the street. Yourmother!" Angada said, "No!" And he threw the kusa grass away. "I'mnot fasting!" Hanuman said, "If you die, what is the benefit? Youmust go back now. Somehow or other we must convince him that wecouldn't find Sita." Angada said, "How will I go back? I have nostrength." Hanuman said, "You sit down. I will tell you thepastimes of Lord Ramacandra. Then you will gain strength." He beganto describe the pastimes of Ramacandra. They discussed all thesewonderful things of how Lord Ramacandra broke the bow, how hedefeated Parasurama, how he caressed Jatayu and cremated him. Assoon as they were talking about that, they saw some change in theatmosphere. Everything was trembling and shaking. Hanuman caughthold of Angada and said, "Some demon is coming." They were lookingeverywhere, and then from under the mountainside they saw two bigfeet coming out. They looked like bird's feet, and each nail wasabout two kilometres long. Angada said, "That's it. All thirtythousand monkeys will be eaten by this b ird demon now. Look at hisfingers, they are so big!" Slowly the bird came into sight, and thenthey noted that this bird did not have any speed. It was draggingitself, slowly. They saw the wings also, which were each 14 yojanaslong. However, the wings were broken, and they looked completelyburned. They looked like charcoal. He was dragging himself withgreat difficulty, and then slowly his face came into view, a hugebeak. He opened his mouth and spoke, "Who is talking about mybrother Jatayu?" So many monkeys were blown over just by the aircoming out of his mouth. Jambavan was called, and Hanuman said,"Look after the monkeys, we must take care of this person. He may beuseful to us." They both came to him, and asked him, "Who are you?We are talking of Jatayu, and I am Hanuman and this is Angada. I amthe son of Vayu, and we are messengers of Rama." Slowly the birdopened his eyes and said, "Rama? Is this the son of Dasaratha?"Hanuman said, "Yes, this is the same Rama." The bird continued, "Hewas exiled to the forest. Has he completed his exile?" "What awonderful bird," Angada remarked. "He is sitting under the mountainand cannot see anything, yet he knows history. Yes they are still inexile because they lost their wife. Sita has been taken by Ravana."The bird said, "Ravana! Aargh! I will eat him up." Hanuman said,"Oh very good! Please do it." The bird said, "But I cannot fly. Mywings are broken. I am Sampati, the elder brother of Jatayu. I ammuch stronger than Jatayu. I heard that Jatayu was killed by Ravana.I want to kill him, but I can't kill him as I have entered into anagreement with him." Long ago when Sampati was flying, when he wasyoung and very strong, Ravana was flying with somebody's wife. Thisis what he does all the time. Once he was doing a fire sacrifice,and when Agni came to give a blessing, he took Agni's wife. Ravanais famous for taking people's wives. Sampati stopped him and said,"Where are you going? Who is this woman?" Ravana said, "This isNalakuvera's wife pati said, "You had better leave her right here,otherwise you don't know what I will do to you." Ravana said, "Ah,you are just a dirty bird." So he took one of his feet and caughthold of Ravana and crushed him. Blood came out of his body, and thatis why Ravana has five holes in his body, from Sampati's claw.Ravana covers these so no-one can see him. But there is one holewhich he doesn't cover on his chest. That is the tusk of Airavata.He wants to show that because it is a great fighting wound. At thattime Ravana touched Sampati's feet. "Although you are a bird, Itouch your feet. Please make an agreement with me. I won't come inyour area and do anything, and you don't come in my area." Theysigned an agreement. Because of this, Sampati was bound by dharma.Hanuman asked Sampati, "And how have you become old like this?"Sampati said, "Once Jatayu and I were having a competition, and wewere flying higher and higher. But we came very close to the sun,and I saw Jatayu was burning. So to protect him I put my wings overhim. However, I also was very close to the sun, and my wings gotburnt and came loose. After that I don't know where my brother went.You are the first I have heard say that he died in the service ofLord Ramacandra. I have stayed here so long, and a rishi once toldme that when I told you where Sita was, at that time I would get mystrength back." Hanuman became very excited, "What did you say?"Sampati repeated, "When I tell you where Sita is..." Hanuman cut himshort, "You know where Sita is?" And all the monkeys started jumpingup and down. "We've found Sita, we've found Sita!" Sampati said,"Can you please move me out of this cave? I have to climb on top ofthe Vindhya mountains to look at it." Angada asked, "Look at what?""To look at Lanka," the bird replied. Angada said, "Look at Lanka?It is eight hundred miles away!" Hanuman came close to Angada andsaid, "Just look at this bird. He's so huge, fourteen yojanas eachwing. This bird itself is about thirty yojanas long. Can youimagine how much power he must have in his eyes? He can sit here andsee Lanka!" With great difficulty all the monkeys came under Sampatiand moved him. Thirty thousand monkeys were trying so hard. It wasdifficult for them to somehow put him on top of the rock with hiswings like that. Then he lifted his beak and said, "I can see SriLanka. I can see the ten-story building of Ravana. I can see theroof, and Ravana standing on the top." He could see everything, hehad such optical power. Sampati is the son of Aruna, the charioteerof the Sun-god, so he must be very powerful. "I cannot see Sita," hecontinued, "But Ravana is walking here and there. So many demons arearound. I can see a forest of Ashoka trees. I can see a yellowcloth hanging there." As soon as he said that, Hanuman said, "Yes,yellow cloth. That is what Mother Sita was wearing." Previously Sitahad taken some ornaments, put them in yellow cloth that she tore fromher sari, and threw them down. Hanuman picked them up before Ramacame to Kishkinda, and Laksmana identified them as Sita'sjewelleries. Hanuman became very happy. Even while they werelooking, slowly Sampati's wings became straight, and new featherswere coming out of his body. Next moment they heard a loud, "Rama!"Sampati had chanted Rama. When he started "Ra" he was already up inthe sky. By the time they had heard the whole world he was just apoint in the distant sky. Sampati went to the heavenly planets. Hedidn't want to be there, because he wanted so desperately to killRavana, but because of the pact he couldn't do it. So he just helpedthem and then went. They had found out where Sita was. Hanuman wasasked by Jambavan, "You must leap over this ocean, and go to SriLanka." Hanuman said, "This ocean is so big. How will I do it?"Jambavan then told Hanuman his own pastimes. How he got the sunplanet inside his mouth etc. As Jambavan was narrating, Hanumanbegan to grow. He became big ger and bigger and bigger. He becameso big that Valmiki says his shadow was fifty yojanas long. All themonkeys were like mosquitoes in front of him. Then he said toJambavan, "Yes, I am the servant of Rama! I am the son of Vayu.No-one can stop me! I will crush Ravana with my thumb, and I willbring Sita on my shoulder! There is no need for Ramacandra to go.I am going now." He chanted "Rama!" He started with "Ra," and heended with "m". When he said "m" he was in Sri Lanka. That was howfast he was. Being an angsha of Lord Siva, he took the path thatLord Siva travels. There are different levels that differententities travel at. Gandharvas travel very close to earth, andafter Gandharvas come Kinnaras, after Kinnaras come Vanaras, andafter Vanaras come Siddhas, after Siddhas come Caranas, and afterCaranas come bigger demigods like Ganesh or Kartikeya, and themcomes Lord Siva's tract. In that area no-one flies. It is LordSiva's zone. That is where Hanuman went. He was flying fearlessly.In this way, by chanting Rama only once, Hanuman reached Sri Lanka.Before reaching Sri Lanka he encountered many disturbances, as wellas much help on the way. There was one mountain called MainataParvata. which can grow simply by thinking. The ocean king toldMainata Parvata, "Hanuman, the servant of Rama, is coming, and hemust take some rest. He is leaping in one breath, so you must growupwards and give him somewhere to rest." Mainata Parvata grewupwards to the sky and stopped Hanuman. Hanuman said, "What's this?There is no mountain here. Who are you?" Hanuman can speak notonly from his mouth but from any hole in his body, this was hisyogic perfection. He had only one breath, so he didn't use hismouth which he was using to chant Rama. "M" had to be pronounced inSri Lanka, and he was still on "Ra". He was talking through someother hole. Mainaka Parvata thought, "This is a wonderfulphenomenon. A monkey with a long tail speaking through the holes ofthe body. Please put your lotus feet on my head," the mountain said,"because I have to show to the ocean king that I have served you."Hanuman said, "No rest when I am doing Krsna-seva. I am going." Thedemigods thought, "This is not correct that he reaches Lanka soeasily. There must be some fun." So they called a great snakecalled Sarasa. This Sarasa was ordered to stop Hanuman. This Sarasatook the form of a demoness. She came there and opened her mouth.Hanuman was flowing and she was growing upwards, her mouth open likea big cave. Hanuman said, "Please move away from here. I am on theLord's mission." "No no no," she said. "Brahma has given me abenediction that unless somebody goes in my mouth, he cannot passby." Hanuman said, "Ah, but this mouth is too small for me." And hestarted growing more. She started growing also, making her mouthbigger, so he also grew. She grew more. They were growing andgrowing, and her mouth became half the size of the universe. At thattime Hanuman suddenly became small, and he entered the mouth and cameout. Then he said, "See, I have defeated you. I entered your mouthand came out again. Now you please bless me." So she gaveblessings, and then he went. Another great demoness came and said,"She didn't swallow you, but I must swallow you." She also did thesame thing. Hanuman also asked the same thing. "You please openyour mouth a little wider so you can eat me comfortably." She openedher mouth wider, and Hanuman became small. Though he became small,the strength is same. He went inside the mouth, and hit the back ofher mouth. By that hitting, blood came out and she died. ThenHanuman got her blessings too, while she was dying. She was someGandharvika that had been cursed to become a demoness. She said,"Now I am killed by Hanuman, I will get liberation." So she blessedHanuman. She said, "There is one more person that you have to kill,at the entrance gate." Hanuman landed in Sri Lanka. He looked atLanka, a beautiful city. He felt very bad. "Why should a demon havesuch a beautiful city?" He made up his mind, "Before I go from here,I will destroy this city, somehow or other." He came and Lankani wassitting there, a great demoness with a trident. So Hanuman became asmall monkey, very small, and he was running inside the gate. Shewas sitting there and she said, "Wait! You are not going." "She isvery intelligent," Hanuman said. "I am so small and she saw me." Heclimbed on her hand and up to her shoulder. He looked at her andsaid, "I am a small monkey, please let me in. I want to eat somefruits." "Fruits?" she asked. "What fruits are you going to eat?"Hanuman said, "I heard that there are beautiful mangoes, and Ravanais keeping them only for himself." She said, "I will get you anymango outside this gate. There are so many gardens here. Why areyou going inside for food?" Hanuman said, "Don't waste my time.You'd better let me in." She was shocked. "What? You are justsitting on my shoulder. Don't you know who I am? I am Lankani."Hanuman said, "You are Lankani? I will slap you." She was amused."You will slap me? You can't even reach my cheek." "Please take meto your cheek," Hanuman said. She took Hanuman and placed him nextto her cheek. He slapped her and she fell down and blood came fromher mouth. He was so small, but his strength was the same as whenhis size was normal. Then he went inside the city.