Whenever the two monkey chiefs caught hold of any great general of the demon host, they would seize him by the leg and send him flying to their lord (Ýr¶ RŒma). Vibh¶ƒa˜a would mention their name and Ýr¶ RŒma assigned even them a quarter in His own abode. Man-eating monsters who feasted on the flesh of holy BrŒhma˜as thus attained a destiny which is solicited even by Yog¶s (ascetics given to contemplation on God). UmŒ, (continues Lord Ýiva,) Ýr¶ RŒma is so tender-hearted and such a storehouse of compassion that He bestows the highest state (final beatitude) even on the demons, remembering that they think of Him even though in a spirit of hostility! Tell me, BhavŒn¶, who else is so benignant? Most dull-witted and utterly wretched are the men who, even on hearing of such a lord, worship Him not, disabusing themselves of all delusion. “A˘gada and HanumŒn have evidently forced their way into the fort of La˘kŒ,” thus observed AyodhyŒ’s lord. Rampaging in La˘kŒ, the two monkeys looked like a pair of Mandaras churning the ocean. (1—4)