{"id":74712,"date":"2025-07-08T01:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=74712"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:44:56","slug":"the-vanaras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-vanaras\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vanaras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rama_and_Lakshmana_arrive_at_Lake_Pampa_From_the_Mewar_Ramayana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74713 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rama_and_Lakshmana_arrive_at_Lake_Pampa_From_the_Mewar_Ramayana-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rama_and_Lakshmana_arrive_at_Lake_Pampa_From_the_Mewar_Ramayana-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rama_and_Lakshmana_arrive_at_Lake_Pampa_From_the_Mewar_Ramayana-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rama_and_Lakshmana_arrive_at_Lake_Pampa_From_the_Mewar_Ramayana-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rama_and_Lakshmana_arrive_at_Lake_Pampa_From_the_Mewar_Ramayana.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vanaras<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Their hypothesis was correct. The Vanaras, always on the alert, had already spotted them. At that moment Sugriva himself was watching them secretly. After having examined them sufficiently, he withdrew and convened the council of ministers. Sugriva was visibly worried and commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cHave you seen those two strangers? Their bearing is that of the kshatriyas, who are proud and noble warriors. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re brave in combat, too. Could they be Vali&#8217;s men who came to kill me?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Jambavan spoke first:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cWe are not sure if they are enemies. So there is no need to be alarmed ahead of time. I think we should send someone to them to find out about their intentions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Hanuman took up Jambavan&#8217;s proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cHe&#8217;s right. There is no need to be afraid. I can go to those two young warriors to try to know their true intentions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cThe Ramayana\u201d, in English.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/ramayana-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vanaras Their hypothesis was correct. The Vanaras, always on the alert, had already spotted them. At that moment Sugriva himself was watching them secretly. After having examined them sufficiently, he withdrew and convened the council &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-vanaras\/\" aria-label=\"The Vanaras\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":74713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-74712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-ramayana-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 11:41:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}