HANUMAN MEETS RAVANA

When Hanuman came to the court, Ravana angrily asked, "Who are you who had dared to cause this havoc in my country?"

Hauman said, "I am Hanuman, Rama's messenger."

"So now Rama has to take a monkey's help," laughed Ravana in his thunderous voice.

Hanuman said, "O conceited Ravana, you have committed the biggest crime by kidnapping the consort of my Lord. If you return Mother Sita honorably, my Lord shall forgive you. If not, then death and destruction of your clean is inevitable."
On hearing this, Ravana was made with rage. He ordered his commanders to kill Hanuman at once, but Vibheeshan stopped them from doing so. He said, "Killing a messenger would only bring disgrace to us."

In his court, Ravana sat on an elevated throne and from his throne he looked down at others. To teach a lesson to the egoistical Ravana, Hanuman coiled up his tail higher than Ravana's throne and sat on it. Enraged by the audacity of Hanuman, Ravana ordered his tail to be set on fire.

HANUMAN EXTENDED HIS Tail to the extent that the entire stock of oil in Lanka was used up.

As soon as his tail caught fire, Hanuman climbed up the palace and set it on fire. Then jumping from one place to another, he set the entire Lanka, except the Ashok Vatika, in flames.

To extinguish the fire on his tail, Hanuman jumped into the ocean. He then went to the Ashok Vatika to meet Sita. He asked her not to worry, and assured her that Lord Rama would soon come to rescue her and put an end to the life of the egoistical Ravana.

Hanuman took Sita's blessings and flew across the ocean to th place where Jambuvan and Angad were waiting for him.