An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s5.63

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Hanūmatpratyāgamana (“the returning of Hanūmat”). § 534: Rāma and Lakshmaṇa were dwelling on the mountain Mālyavat. Rāma sent Lakshmaṇa to Kishkindhyā to threaten Sugrīva. Sugrīva, however, said that he had despatched monkeys in all directions to find out Sītā. After a month those who had the north, the east, and the west returned. After two months Hanūmat, Aṅgada, ete., returned from the south, after having pillaged Madhuvaoa (b). Hanūmat told that in a cavern of the palace of Maya the ascetic Prabhāvatī had shown them the way; on the shore they had met Sampāti, the brother of Jaṭāyu(s) (c), and had informed him of everything; Sampāti then had directed them to Laṅkā (d), whereafter Hanūmat had crossed the ocean and slain the Rākshasī of the water, and had been recognized by Sītā from the words of Avindhya; Sītā had given him a jewel as a credential and told him, as a token, that Rāma on the mountain Citrakūṭa had shot a blade of grass at a crow; Hanūmat then had caused himself to be seized by the soldiers of Rāvaṇa, and set fire to Laṅkā.