Taking Vāli's son by the hand, he sat him down in a charming tract of the woodland belonging to the mountain Mahendra. Then asked (by them), Hanumān addressed those foremost monkeys, "I have seen Janaka's daughter in the Asoka woods."
विषसाद च हस्तेन गृहीत्वा वालिनः सुतम्। रमणीये वनोद्देशे महेन्द्रस्य गिरेस्तदा॥ हनूमानब्रवीत्पृष्टस्तदा तान्वानरर्षभान्। अशोकवनिकासंस्था दृष्टा सा जनकात्मजा॥