He did everything he could to console Sita and inspire her with confidence, and then bowed his head at her lotus feet and set forth to rejoin Rama.
As he went, he roared aloud with such a terrible noise that the wives of the demons, who heard it, were overtaken by premature childbirth. Crossing the sea with a bound, he arrived on this side and uttered a cry of joy for the monkeys to hear. At the sight of Hanuman, they were as delighted as if they had been given a new spell of life. “Your face is so glad and your whole body so radiant that you cannot but have accomplished Rama’s commission.” All greeted him with as much delight as an expiring fish feels when it gets back into the water; and they set out with joy to rejoin Rama, talking as they went of all that had lately occurred. When they had reached the Madhu-ban, with Angad’s consent they began eating the luscious fruit; the watchmen tried to stop them, but were beaten off with fisticuffs. They then fled,
As he went, he roared aloud with such a terrible noise that the wives of the demons, who heard it, were overtaken by premature childbirth. Crossing the sea with a bound, he arrived on this side and uttered a cry of joy for the monkeys to hear. At the sight of Hanuman, they were as delighted as if they had been given a new spell of life. “Your face is so glad and your whole body so radiant that you cannot but have accomplished Rama’s commission.” All greeted him with as much delight as an expiring fish feels when it gets back into the water; and they set out with joy to rejoin Rama, talking as they went of all that had lately occurred. When they had reached the Madhu-ban, with Angad’s consent they began eating the luscious fruit; the watchmen tried to stop them, but were beaten off with fisticuffs. They then fled,