Kishkindha Kaanda
137 - Dialogue between Sugriva and Sri Rama and the departure of the monkeys in quest of Sita
Chaupais
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(Says Sankara:) I saw the army of monkeys, Uma; he is indeed a fool who would try to count them. They came and bowed their head at Sri Rama's feet and found their true lord in Him when they gazed on His countenance. In the whole host there was no monkey whose welfare Sri Rama did not personally enquire. This was no miracle for my master, the Lord of Raghus, who has taken all forms and is omnipresent. They stood in martial array as ordered and King Sugriva thus instructed them all: "I exhort and commission you to do Sri Rama's work. Therefore, O monkey hosts, go forth in every direction and institute a search for Janaka's Daughter, but you should all return in course of a month, my brethren, He who returns beyond this limit without any news shall meet his death at my hands."