Angada Hears Hanuman Is Alone and Leaps Up as Though in Play

News reaches Angada that Hanuman has gone alone upon the fortress. The battle around Lanka is immense, yet the prince hears first the solitude of his companion above the western wall.

Bali's son moves at once. Bold and practiced in war, he crosses the distance and rises toward the fort, but the verse describes his ascent as play. Height, stone, weapons, and gathered defenders cannot make the leap heavy for one upheld by Rama's glory.

Angada joins Hanuman upon the enemy's own stronghold. The two servants who separately humbled Ravana's city now stand together over it while armies continue to collide below. Fellowship arrives not through counsel spoken at leisure, but through one warrior hearing that another faces the danger alone and refusing to leave him there.

Hanuman's solitude lasts only until Angada hears of it, and then friendship clears the fortress wall in one leap.