Aug 18, 2007

Chapter 89: Hanuman meets Sita

Finally he reaches Lanka. Beach-keepers smell a non-Lankanhuman being. Hanuman becomes a 1-inch dwarf. Happily soldiers pluck him to eat. Promptly H gives one on the head and enters the palace. He roams around the palace when he hears a chant on Rama. Forgetting himself, he dances and enters Vibs (Chanter) room. Intro (Anjali putra, Bajrangbali, etc). Vib shows the path to AV.

In AV, Ravana meets Sita, who holds a strip of tree to protect her from him and chants. He asks her to become his but she starts comparing him to Rama. Rama is Sun, he is a small light, liable to be blown away, Rama is a sweet smelling flower but Ravana is a poison, etc. Ravana gets angry and goes to kill her. Mandodhari pitches in and says ‘Over my dead body”. She says to fight against a woman would decrease his fame. So he stops. But he gives one month time to Sita to become his.

After he leaves, Sita asks HAV to help her commit suicide. HAV refuses. So Sita begs AV to take away her ‘shok’ (sadness) by giving something from sky to acknowledge Rama’s presence. H, heretofore sitting on AV branch drops the ring that Sita had given to Rama and that which Rama had given to H. She is shocked. How could the ring come here? Has anyone stolen from him or killed him? Hanuman chants and all rakshasas fall asleep. He drops from AV and sits in front of her. She is shocked at Monkey Man. But he convinces her that he is Rama’s messenger. She is very happy.

Rama, somehow feeling nice that all is well. An intuition that H might have found Sita. A telepathy between Sita and Rama about how much Rama is missing Sita. How much he needs her, is addicted to her and a sorta cant-live-without-you feeling. Going days together without food and sleep.

Sita’s unsure of Hanuman’s powers. So H turns into Mammoth Hulk and shows how powerful he is. Then only Sita gets convinced that H can escape. H refuses to take her away from Lanka because of moral – something against the rules of war.

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