Dvivida

Rama, miserable at Sita's abduction, is urged by Lakshmana to seek help rather than lament. He reaches Lake Pampa, meets Hanuman, and forms a pact with Sugriva — Rama will kill Vali in exchange for Sugriva's help to recover Sita. They go to Kishkindha, and after a brutal fight between the brothers, Rama shoots Vali through the heart with a single arrow.

Sugriva summons the foremost monkeys from every direction, and they arrive with armies numbering in the crores — Sushena, Gaja, Gavaya, Gavaksha, Gandhamadana, Panasa, Dadhimukha, and Jambavan with his bears. On an auspicious day, Rama marches out with this vast force, armed with trees and rocks, and they camp along the shore of the salty ocean — where the real problem begins.

Ravana's son Indrajit binds Rama and Lakshmana with boon-granted arrows, trapping them like birds in a cage. Sugriva and the monkeys stand guard helplessly until Vibhishana arrives with the prajna weapon to revive them, and Kubera sends consecrated water to grant them the power to see invisible beings.