Vali

Bhima asks the ape to reveal his true identity. The ape speaks: he was born from Kesari and Vayu, the wind god — the same wind that gave Bhima his own strength. He is Hanuman, the monkey who served Rama, who leaped across the ocean to find Sita, who burned Lanka and returned. He tells Bhima that he asked Rama for a single boon: to live as long as Rama's deeds were sung on earth. Rama agreed. And so Hanuman is still here.

Rama and Lakshmana encounter Kabandha, a rakshasa like a cloud or a mountain with a single eye on his chest and a giant mouth on a giant belly. He seizes Lakshmana in his arms. Lakshmana despairs, lamenting their misfortunes — Sita abducted, Rama exiled, their father dead — but Rama remains undaunted. He commands Lakshmana to slice off Kabandha's right arm while he severs the left, and they hack at the rakshasa until he falls dead. From his body emerges the gandharva Vishvavasu, freed from Brahma's curse, who tells Rama that Ravana took Sita to Lanka and advises him to seek Sugriva's help at Lake Pampa near Mount Rishyamukha.

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.

Rama, living on Malyavan under the clear sky and moon, is overcome by grief for Sita. Believing Sugriva has become ungrateful and forgotten his promise, he instructs Lakshmana to go to Kishkindha — either to bring the monkey king back to serve their purpose, or to kill him like Vali if he remains lazy and ungrateful.

Indrajit, the son of Ravana, arrives on the battlefield and challenges Lakshmana to a duel. Lakshmana rushes forward, and a fierce battle erupts. When Angada joins the fight and destroys Indrajit's chariot with a tree, the rakshasa uses his maya (illusion) to become invisible, showering Rama and Lakshmana with arrows until both brothers fall from the sky to the ground.