Then those foremost of monkeys, in vigour resembling the Wind, getting occasion for displaying their prowess, intent upon searching the Janaka's daughter, set forward towards the quarter crested by Abhijit.* * Abhijitabhimukhan (acc.) Abhijit—the name of a star. Abhijit may also mean-he who is to be conquered. Then the sense would be the region in which Rāvana was.
अथ पवनसमानविक्रमाः प्लवगवराः प्रतिलब्धपौरुषाः। र्जनकसुतापरिमार्गणोन्मुखाः॥