And bring those herbs to save us now.”

Hanúmán heard, and springing through

The air like Vishṇu's discus[991] flew.

The sea was passed: beneath him, gay

With bright-winged birds, the mountains lay,

And brook and lake and lonely glen,

And fertile lands with toiling men.

On, on he sped: before him rose

The mansion of perennial snows.

There soared the glorious peaks as fair