Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.192

c9.192

told Rāvaṇa about his victory, and as suggested by the latter Rākṣasa women took Sītā to the battlefield in the Puṣpaka Vimāna, showed her Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa and others lying there in a life-less condition and told her that all of them were dead. Sītā wept aloud, but Trijaṭā consoled her by saying that the Puṣpaka Vimāna would not carry widows and therefore Rāma was not dead. Hanūmān returned before dawn the next day. As he could not distinguish mṛtasañjīvinī he had brought with him a mountain peak where the four medicinal plants, Śalyaharaṇī, Viśalyakaraṇī, Sandhānakaraṇī and Mṛtasañjīvinī grew. Jāmbavān distinguished mṛtasañjīvinī from the others and carried the four herbs into the battlefield. Contact with the air, which carried the smell of mṛtasañjīvinī brought the dead back to life. Viśalyakaraṇī removed all the arrows from their bodies and Sandhānakaraṇī healed the wounds.