As they marched covering many a yojana, the streams seemed as if they flowed in an opposite direction.* *Kataka remark-"As when clouds, drift past, the Moon it is that seems to send accross the sky, as the monkey-army marched on, the rivers seemed to flow in an opposite direction.” Rāmānuja says that the waters of the streams dashed by the monkeys, held an opposite course. The former interpretation is hardly satisfactory, and Rāmānuja seems to be right.
उत्तरन्त्याश्च सेनायाः सततं बहुयोजनम्॥ नदीस्रोतांसि सर्वाणि सस्यन्दुर्विपरीतवत्।