Monkey Hosts of Every Color Fill the Horizon around Rama
Kishkindha Kanda, Doha 21
Doha 21 · Movement 2 of 2
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While Rama and Sugriva are still speaking, movement appears along the edges of the land. The messengers' command has reached the forests and mountains beyond Kishkindha.
Troops of monkeys begin to arrive. They do not come as a single narrow line, but as gathering hosts visible in every direction around the place where Raghunatha waits.
Color multiplies across the horizon. Bodies of many hues answer the one purpose that Sugriva forgot and has now remembered. The search for one missing queen draws a living world toward Rama from all sides.
Every direction fills with color as the monkey world gathers for the search of Sita.
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एहि बिधि होत बतकही आए बानर जूथ। नाना बरन सकल दिसि देखिअ कीस बरुथ।।21।।
While such conversation was going on, troops of monkeys began to arrive. Multitudes of monkeys of every color could be seen in all directions.