Blood red as those Hanuman’s hinds
Seemed they red hills well sundered.
Wind as passed through his armpits
Roared it then like lightning clouds.
Mistook him then sky watchers
For some meteor that was rare.
In flight he looked like elephant
With its tail spread round its waist.
Shadow that he cast on seas
Seemed to all a speeding boat.
Concord like he moved in skies
Caused he whirlpools in the seas.
With his broad chest Hanuman did
Ward off sea tides that reached him.
As he speeded in his flight
Formed a cyclone in the skies
Caused that storm then in the seas.
Mean sea level as rose to skies
Made he light of all those tides.
As he sped he seemed to count
Mountain tides that so neared him.
Splash from tides as foamed the skies
Gave that silver coat to space.
Torn as thus the water sheet
Felt all fish as turned naked.
Water snakes as sighted skies
Feared they eagle was on prowl.
Thick and wide was his shadow
Seemed so symmetric to one’s eyes.
Sped as he past in high skies
Seemed his shadow like a cloud.
Looked then Hanuman in motion
Like a mountain with huge wings.
Split as that sea in columns
Cruisers they seemed in his chase.
Coursed as he thus Garuda like
In those skies that filled with birds
Wind like then he scattered clouds.
Clouds as all then went askance
Shone they well in colours varied.
In and out of clouds Hanuman
Seemed he like the moon on course.
In awe celestial beings then
Myriad flowers they showered on him.
Filtered Surya his heat then
While made easy breeze Vayu.
Sang his praises seers all there
Awestruck angels his prowess.
Wondered at his endurance
Angels all who watched him then.
Felt thus Sagar, Lord of Seas
For whom Rama’s cause came first.
Were I to fail to help Hanuman
Make I myself blameworthy.
Won’t I owe my reign and all
To Ram’s ancestor, my namesake?
For he exerts for Ram’s cause
Bound am I to help Hanuman.
Spoke then Sagar to Mainak
Prince of hills with golden peaks
Made who ocean bed his home.
Confined were thou by Indra
On my bed for ever so long
Barrier though as to netherworld.
Demons all for that lay therein
Block thou approach to this world.
Prowess such is unique thine
Expand thou the way thy wish.
Behold Hanuman as he flies