HIKAYAT SERI RAMA. ” 19 
brotherhood, the latter giving him .a magic ring which would 
obtain for him anything that he wished at any time, and he, 
on his part, giving to the Jina lump of frankincense which on 
being burned would procure the attendance of any number of 
monkey-warriors. The Jin explained that his retirement was 
owing to his rejection by Raja Shah Kobad as a suitor for the 
hand of the latter’s daughter. 
~ After this adventure, the monkey returned to Séri Rama 
and made a fresh attempt to leap across to Pulau Kachapuri, 
this time from the plain Antra-béranta. But this too failed 
him in the same manner as Padang Kérsek had before. Then 
Séri Rama invited him to mount on his shoulders and thence 
make his jump. The monkey climbed up at once, and, to see 
if his father could bear him, braced up his muscles as if to leap. 
“He clutched Séri Rama and, putting forth only half of his 
strength, brought into play all the sinews of his body eleven 
hundred and ninety-nine in number, and all his joints, while his 
eyes grew as red as the saga bean when fried, and his bristles 
stood up like the thorns on the jack-fruit and his pores opened 
like the stalk-end of a fig.” 
Sérl1 Rama had sunk up to his knees in the earth under 
his supernatural burden, when Raja Laksamana, seeing his 
danger, seized the monkey by the arms and legs and swinging 
him round sent him flying through space till he fell at last on 
an island in the midst of the sea.* There the latter called 
upon his friend the Jin with seven heads for help. The wish 
was hardly expressed when the latter stood before him, and 
the circumstances having been explained, the Jin took the 
monkey-prince on his shoulder and then supernaturally in- 
creased his stature until he was within easy reach of Maharaja 
Duwana’s landing-place at Kachapuri. There the monkey - 
jumped off and hid himself in the bushes. After a while forty- 
four handmaidens carring water jars made their appearance. 
* According to the Ramayana, Hanuman leapt across the straits 
which separate India and Ceylon, lighting only once on a rock in the 
middle. 
R. A. Soc., No. 55, 1909. 
