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Sundar Kanda Parayanam
Sundar Kanda is a chapter in the Ramayana that literally means “Beautiful Chapter”. It is about the first conquest of Hanuman over Lanka. The chapter describes how Hanuman went to Lanka in search of Seeta, found her, then allowed himself to be arrested by Ravana’s soldiers. At the request of Vibheeshana, Ravana agrees not to kill Hanuman, but sets fire to his tail instead.
Hanuman then leaps with his burning tail from building to building, burning the beautiful Lanka down. The rest of the chapter deals with Hanuman’s return to the forest where Rama was waiting, with an ornament as a souvenir from Seeta, and the plan for crossing the mighty ocean to Lanka begins to take shape.
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