Sushena

Renuka, rigid in her vows, goes to bathe while her sons gather fruit. She sees King Chitraratha sporting in the water with his wives, garlanded with lotuses — and is filled with desire. She loses her chastity and her senses. When Jamadagni discovers this, he commands each of his four eldest sons to kill their mother. They refuse. In great anger, he curses them to lose their minds and behave like animals or inanimate objects.

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.