Recall how thee threw jewels
From the skies of Kishkindha.
Showed we them all to thy man
Told we know not who snared thee.
How the sound of that landing
Still rings fresh in Kishkindha?
Sighted as he thy jewels
Fainted Ram in Lakshman’s lap.
Compelled as if by thy thought
Woke up Ram and tapped them all.
As if to dust them all then
Shed Ram tears on all of them.
Left with no more drop to drop
Seemed he drained his heart for thee.
For safe keeping of them all
Gave them Ram to Sugreeva.
Having thus lost thee consort
There none is to console Ram.
Had he no wink all these days
Pines he ever to sleep with thee
Having lost the trace of thee
Know thy man is truly lost.
Lost as he his lovely spouse
Pleases him none spring even.
It’s for certain that Rama
Would kill Ravan in Lanka.
Know vanars all bound by oath
Take thee back soon to thy Lord.
For he slew the vile Vali
Oath we took to help thy Lord.
Having crowned our Sugreeva
As the king of Kishkindha
Won’t we all owe to thy man?
Grateful Sugreev vow then took
To help thy man to get thee back.
It’s in thy search Sugreeva
Sent all simians to scan earth.
Bade us Sugreev not to leave
Stone unturned to search Seetha.
Vanars are on global hunt
To nail the vile who snared thee thus.
Angad son of slain Vali
Marched with some of us southward.
Lost we way in vast Vindhyas
Groped in dark for several weeks.
Not to go sans breaking news
To our Lord who owed thy man
Thought we all to end our lives.
If ever it came to the crunch
Felt we should die exhausted
In search of Rama’s dear Seetha.
Haunted by our own failure
Lost we hope of finding thee.
Low then we all felt to core
Lay we flat on mountain peak
Flew in then Sampaathi
Sibling of slain Jataayu.
Having heard his sibling’s death
Spaketh thus the agonized bird.
Pray thee tell me O vanars
Who did kill my good sibling?
Angad then told Sampaathi
Trying to save Rama’s spouse
Lost his sibling his own life.
Having heard the story thus
Sampaathi then told Angad
With the bird’s-eye view of his
Sensed he Ram’s spouse in Lanka.
Having got the clue from him
Led us southward then Angad.
At the prospect of success
Enthused were then all of us.
Sea vast in time as we reached
Poured that water on our hopes.
In that Angad and the rest
Saw the mission as ending there.
But the urge to find out thee