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Shloka 5.39.50

अभिज्ञानमणि-प्रदानम् — The Signet Jewel as Proof and the Consolation of Sita

शैलाम्बुदनिकाशानां लङ्कामलयसानुषु।नर्दतां कपिमुख्यानामार्ये यूधान्यनेकशः।।।।

śailāmbuda-nikāśānāṁ laṅkāmalaya-sānuṣu | nardatāṁ kapimukhyānām ārye yūdhāny anekaśaḥ ||

O noble lady, you will behold many companies of roaring vānara chiefs—like cloud-masses upon mountains—ranging over the slopes and peaks of Laṅkā’s Malaya heights.

"O respectable lady! you would see many troops of vanara chiefs who resemble clouds hovering on the mountain peaks of Lanka-roaring.

L
Laṅkā
M
Malaya (mountains)
V
Vānara chiefs

Dharma is the assurance of protection: righteous power gathers to remove oppression, giving the suffering person reason to endure without losing faith.

Hanumān continues to reassure Sītā by vividly describing the scale and strength of the vānara forces that will come to Laṅkā.

The vānara leaders’ courage and readiness to act for a just cause.