Canto 57
Flight sans Hassles
Airborne as he so he seemed
Like a mountain with huge wings.
Nagas all from stratosphere
Saw him then in his flight route.
Stars all in their resplendence
Saw him as he passed them by.
Hanuman got a feeling then
Was he there in another world.
Moved as he thus in high skies
Seemed he swallowed clouds all there.
Picked as up he speed in flight
Seemed as if skies shrunk in size.
Formed then rainbow in mid-air
Looked that like a welcome arch.
Clouds as darkened in mid-course
Played he hide ’n seek like moon.
As and when he came in view
In his vest he shone like moon.
Acquired as if Garuda’s grace
With such ease then Hanuman flew.
Seemed then ether spread to world
Words those Hanuman spoke to self
About the valorous deeds of his
Done by grace of Lord Rama.
Approached when he Mainaka
Touched him Hanuman in reverence.
Sighted as he Indra’s hill
Roared then like a lion Hanuman.
Induced by the roars of his
Thundered all the clouds in skies.
Sighted as he home shore soon
Waved his tail in triumph Hanuman.
Sounded as he his comeback
Seemed all worlds then shook to roots.
With such chaos in the skies
Guessed his peers all his approach.
Waited they with bated breath
For Hanuman to come then in sight.
Soared their spirits as with his roars
Reached they shores to see him land.
Urge of theirs to see Hanuman
Made them all jump up and down.
Jambavan it was then addressed
All the vanars there gathered.
Doubt there none that our Hanuman
Is well on his way back home.
Neared as Hanuman southern shore
Raised sea mean level in welcome.
For the sight of Hanuman then
Climbed all vanars then treetops.
Jumped for joy as those vanars
Fell all leaves from their branches.
Heard they roar of their hero
Raised those decibels all over.
Sighted as all Hanuman soon
Raised they hands in salute then.
Folks as his lay awestruck then
He on Mahendra’s peak landed.
Jumped he down to rejoin
All those vanars whom he left.
In their joy then vanars all
Ran to mob their own hero.
Finding him in pink of health
Sigh of relief heaved they all.
Looked at him all in reverence
Fetched they rare fruits all for him.
Sounding welcome for Hanuman
Gave their throats then vanars all.
To elders all and Prince Angad
For his part then bowed Hanuman.
Knew as he their eagerness
To hear the story in detail,
As though to save all for Ram
Gave he brief as ‘Seen Seetha’.
Having embraced Prince Angad
Squatted Hanuman there on lawn.
Goaded by the vanars then
Told he how he found Seetha.
In her lament for her man
Found I famished her to bone.
That he himself saw Seetha
Cheered the vanars there gathered.
Roared as vanars with one throat
Shocked were birds all in their flight.
Raised as vanars tails their long
Looked like ladders they to skies.
Pachyderm like as sat Hanuman
In their joy they hugged him all.
Bringing order then Angad
Addressed Hanuman thus in praise.
None can equal thee on earth
Flew who over sea this twice.
Swore as all of us to die
Had thee failed to find Seetha
It’s thy valour saved our lives.
It’s thy reverence to Sri Ram
Made thee as the chosen one
To discern Seetha there yonder.
News of Seetha in his wait
Sure to gladden Rama’s heart.
Clapped all vanars to one man
At what all Angad just then said.
Kept they silence of pin drop
So that Hanuman could go on.
So to let him unfold then
With their hearts in mouths they sat.
So to catch his every word
Sat next Angad to Hanuman.
With the vanars there thus sat
Seemed the place then royal court.