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Line 223: [[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Reliëf op de aan Shiva gewijde tempel op de Candi Lara Jonggrang oftewel het Prambanan tempelcomplex TMnr 10016191.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|[[Ravana]] kidnapping [[Sita]] while Jatayu on the left tried to help her. 9th century [[Prambanan]] bas-relief, Java, Indonesia]] When Rama and Lakshmana begin the desperate search to discover where Sita had been taken, after traversing a distance in many directions, they come across the magical eagle [[Jatayu (Ramayana)\|Jatayu]], who is dying. They discover from Jatayu that ~~a rakshasa~~[[Ravana]] was flying away with a crying, struggling [[Sita]] towards the south. Jatayu had flown to the rescue of Sita, but owing to his age and the rakshasa's power, had been defeated. With this, Jatayu dies in Rama's arms. Rama is overcome with love and affection for the bird which sacrificed its own life for Sita, and the rage of his death returns to him in the climactic battle with Ravana. Rama's only allies in the struggle to find Sita are the [[Vanaras]] of Kishkindha. Finding a terrified [[Sugriva]] being hunted by his own brother, king [[Vali (Ramayana)\|Vali]], Rama promises to kill Vali and free Sugriva of the terror and the unjust charge of plotting to murder Vali. The two swear everlasting friendship over sacred fire. Rama's natural piety and compassion, his sense of justice and duty, as well as his courage despite great personal suffering after Sita's kidnapping inspire devotion from the Vanaras and Sugriva, but especially [[Hanuman]], Sugriva's minister. Devoted to Rama, Hanuman exerts himself greatly over the search for Sita. He is the first to discover that Sita was taken to Lanka, and volunteers to use his divine gifts in a dangerous reconnaissance of Lanka, where he is to verify Sita's presence. Hanuman hands Rama's ring to Sita, as a mark of Rama's love and his imminent intention of rescuing her. Though captured, he candidly delivers Rama's message to Ravana to immediately release Sita, and when his tail is burned, he flies and sets Lanka on fire. When Lakshmana is struck down and near death and Rama overcome with love and concern for his brother, Hanuman flies to the [[Himalayas]] on the urgent mission to fetch the ''sanjeevani'' medicinal herbs, bringing the entire mountain to Lanka so that no time is lost in saving Lakshmana.<ref>R. Menon, ''The Ramayana'', pp. 447</ref> The Vanaras fight the rakshasas, completely devoted to Rama's cause. They angrily dismiss Ravana's efforts to create international divisions within their army when he suggested that Rama considered them, monkeys, as mere animals. At the end of the war, Indra restores life to the millions of fallen Vanaras.<ref>R. Menon, ''The Ramayana'', pp. 499</ref>

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