Lakshmana immediately called together the citizens and all the Brahmans, and (in their presence) invested Sugriva with the sovereignty, with Angad as Crown Prince.

There is no such benefactor as Rama in the world. O Uma, no guru, father, mother, brother or master. It is the usual practice for gods, men and sages to make friends with motives of self interest;

-but Raghubira, from mere natural kindliness, made Sugriva king of the monkeys – Sugriva who trembled day and night in fear of Bali, who had many a wound on his body and whose heart ever burnt with the fire of anxiety.

Mustn’t those who knowingly abandon such a Lord be caught in the meshes of calamity? The Lord then sent for Sugriva and instructed him in the various principles of statecraft.

‘Listen, O Sugriva, king of the monkey race,’ said the Lord; ‘I shall not enter a city for fourteen years. The hot season is now over and the rains have set in. I shall therefore encamp on the hills not far from you.

Do you with Angad rule the kingdom, but remain ever mindful of my mission. When Sugriva returned to his palace, Rama encamped on the Pravarshana hills,

- where the gods had already kept ready a delightful mountain cave, knowing that the All-merciful Rama would come and stay there for some days.