After telling him also of the purification of the Dandaka forest, Bhushundi went on to sing of the Lord’s friendship with the vulture king (Jayayu) and of how the Lord took up his abode at Panchavati and put an end to the fears of all the hermits.

Next, he repeated the incomparable exhortation to Lakshmana and the story of Shrupanakha’s mutilation; then the slaying of Khara and Dushana and how Ravana (the ten-headed monster) got all the information.

He then told in detail of Ravana’s conversation with Maricha, then of the abduction of the illusory Sita and briefly of the Lord Raghubira’s bereavement.

After this, he described how the Lord performed the vulture’s funerary rites, slew the demon Kabandha and bestowed the highest state (final beatitude) upon Shabari (the Bhil woman); then how Raghubira came to the bank of the Pampa lake, bewailing his desolation all the way.

Next, he repeated the Lord Rama’s conversation with the sage Narada and the episode of his meeting with Hanuman, and told of his alliance with Sugriva and his taking Bali’s life.

He related how after installing Sugriva (on the throne of Kishkindha), the Lord took up his abode on Mount Pravarshana; he gave an account of the rains and the autumn, Rama’s wrath and Sugriva’s terror.

He told how Sugriva, the Monkey King, sent out his monkeys, who rushed forth in every direction in quest of Sita; how the monkeys entered the cavern and found Sampati (Jatayu’s elder brother).