Adorned with swaying earrings, a diadem, a garland, and golden ornaments, the Wind-god fell at the feet of Brahma and, approaching, stood before the Creator.
Seeing him restored to life, the breath-bearing Wind, the bearer of fragrance, moved joyfully among all beings as before, having previously been held back.
Released from the obstruction of the Wind, all those creatures became glad, freed from cold and burning heat, like lotus-ponds together with their lotuses.
Then Brahma, the deity worshipped by the gods, who is threefold in his pairings, has three peaks, and dwells in three abodes, spoke out of his wish to please the Wind-god.
O Mahendra, Isha (Shiva), Varuna, Lord of creatures (Prajapati), and Lord of wealth (Kubera), listen: though you all know everything, I shall declare what is beneficial; let it be heard.
There will be a task to be accomplished by all of you through this infant; therefore, all of you, for the satisfaction of this son of the Wind, declare your boons.
And there shall be none equal to him in the understanding of the scriptures. Varuna too granted a boon: He shall have no death; even by a hundred myriads of years, nor by my noose, nor by water shall he die.
yamo daṇḍādavadhyatvamarogatvaṃ ca nityaśaḥ | varaṃ dadāmi santuṣṭa aviṣādaṃ ca saṃyuge || 7.36.16 ||
Translation
Yama, well pleased, said: I grant the boon of invulnerability to my rod (of death) and perpetual freedom from disease, and freedom from despondency in battle.
He shall be able to assume any form at will, to move at will, and to go wherever he wishes, the best of those who leap; his motion shall be unobstructed, and he shall become renowned.
O Rama, having obtained these boons and endowed with the gifts that were granted, he was filled with the strength residing within him, as the ocean is filled.
srugbhāṇḍānyagnihotraṃ ca valkalājinasañcayān | bhagnavicchinnavidhvastānsaṃśāntānāṃ karotyayam || 7.36.30 ||
Translation
The sacrificial ladles and vessels, the fire-oblation, and the heaps of bark-garments and antelope-skins of the tranquil sages he would break, tear apart, and shatter.
Then the great sages, born in the lineage of Bhrigu and Angiras, grew angry, O best of the Raghus, and cursed him, though not over-wrathful nor over-incensed.
bādhase yatsamāśritya balamasmānplavaṅgama | taddīrghakālaṃ vettāsi nāsmākaṃ śāpamohitaḥ | yadā te smāryate kīrtistadā te vardhate balam || 7.36.35 ||
Translation
O leaping one, relying upon that strength you torment us; for a long time you shall not know it, deluded by our curse; but when your glory is recalled to you, then shall your strength grow.
Thereupon, his energy and vigor taken away by the power of the great sages' word, he wandered among those very hermitages, having become gentle in disposition.
sa tu rājyaṃ ciraṃ kṛtvā vānarāṇāṃ harīśvaraḥ | sa ca ṛkṣarajā nāma kāladharmeṇa saṅgataḥ || 7.36.38 ||
Translation
That lord of the monkeys, having ruled the kingdom of the vanaras for a long time, this one named Riksharajas at last met with the law of time (death).
deva jānāti na hyeṣa balamātmani mārutiḥ | ṛṣiśāpāhṛtabalastadaiṣa kapisattamaḥ || 7.36.43 ||
Translation
O lord, this Maruti does not know the strength that is within himself; for this most excellent of monkeys had his power carried off by the curse of the sages.
parākramotsāhamatipratāpasauśīlyamādhuryanayānayaiśca | gāmbhīryacāturyasuvīryadhairyairhanūmataḥ ko 'bhyadhiko 'sti loke || 7.36.45 ||
Translation
In valor, energy, surpassing majesty, good conduct, sweetness, and skill in policy and its opposite, and in profundity, cleverness, surpassing prowess, and steadfastness — who in the world is superior to Hanuman?
Moreover this lord of the monkeys, the immeasurable one, desiring to master grammar and intent on questioning the Sun, facing toward him and bearing a great treatise, traveled from the mountain of the rising sun to the mountain of its setting.
This lord of the monkeys masters the great-meaninged science complete with its aphorisms, its commentary, its glosses on word-meanings, and its compendium; for there is none equal to him in learning, nor likewise in skill in the movement of metres.
sarvāsu vidyāsu tapovidhāne praspardhate 'yo hi guruṃ surāṇām | so 'yaṃ navavyākaraṇārthavettā brahmā bhaviṣyatyapi te prasādāt || 7.36.48 ||
Translation
In all branches of knowledge and in the practice of austerity he vies indeed with Brihaspati, the preceptor of the gods; this knower of the meaning of the nine grammars will, by your grace, become even a Brahma.
Like the ocean about to overflow, like the fire eager to consume the worlds, like Yama, the Ender, at the dissolution of an age — who shall stand before Hanuman?
This one and the other great lords of the monkeys — Sugriva, Mainda, and Dvivida, together with Nila, with Tara and Tara's son (Angada) and Nala, and with Rambha — these, O Rama, were verily created by the gods for your sake.
śrutvā 'gastyasya kathitaṃ rāmaḥ saumitrireva ca | vismayaṃ paramaṃ jagmurvānarā rākṣasaiḥ saha || 7.36.52 ||
Translation
Having heard what Agastya related, Rama and the son of Sumitra (Lakshmana), along with the monkeys and the rakshasas, were filled with the utmost wonder.
'Today my deities, my forefathers, and my great-grandfathers are gladdened; by the very sight of you they, together with my kinsmen, are forever satisfied.'
'Having established the citizens and the country-folk in their respective duties, I have come; I shall, by the power of you who are virtuous, perform the sacrifices.'
tato 'staṃ bhāskare yāte visṛjya nṛpavānarān | sandhyāmupāsya vidhivattadā naravarottamaḥ | pravṛttāyāṃ rajanyāṃ tu so 'ntaḥpuracaro 'bhavat || 7.36.63 ||
Translation
Then, when the sun had set, having dismissed the kings and the vanaras and duly worshipped at the twilight juncture, that best among the foremost of men, when night had set in, withdrew into the inner apartments.