That foremost of those endowed with energy and the prime of monkeys, gifted with speed, went to Laikā,* having crossed over the mighty main. *Descending, remarks the commentator, from the mountain-summit.
स तु वीर्यवतां श्रेष्ठः प्लवतामपि चोत्तमः। जगाम वेगवाँल्लङ्कां लवयित्वा महोदधिम्॥