Having directed his father-in-law to proceed to the West, that best to monkeys, the allknowing king Sugrīva, lord of apes, then spoke to the heroic monkey, named Satavala, words fraught with good to himself as well as to Rāma,
ततः संदिश्य सुग्रीवः श्वशुरं पश्चिमां दिशम्। वीरं शतबलं नाम वानरं वानरेश्वरः॥ उवाच राजा सर्वज्ञः सर्ववानरसत्तमः। वाक्यमात्महितं चैव रामस्य च हितं तदा॥