Prince Aksa, son of Rāvana, who came to meet Hanumān in combat, is killed.

Having killed five more generals sent by Rāvana, Hanumān returns again to the archway of the Aśoka grove.

Having made short work of the seven sons of Rāvana's chief minister too, Hanumān climbs up the archway again and takes up his position there.

Dispatched by Rāvana to capture Hanumān, Jambumālī is killed in battle by the former.

Having disposed of the Kinkaras sent by Rāvana and making up his mind to demolish the sanctuary sacred to the guardian deity of ogres, Hanumān climbs it up and, killing the guards posted there, exhibits his prowess by uttering the name of Śrī Rāma in a thundering voice. Nay, uprooting a pillar of the sanctuary, he brandishes it and burns the sanctuary with the fire produced thereby.

Perceiving the devastation of the royal pleasance at the hands of Hanumān, the ogresses keeping watch over Sītā asked her who he was. On Sītā’s pleading her ignorance in the matter, some of them hurriedly seek the presence of Rāvana and report the matter to him. Hanumān makes short work of a company of ogres known by the name of Kinkaras, despatched by Rāvana. Thereupon Rāvana sends Prahasta’s son to punish the intruder.

Accounting his purpose not fully accomplished till he had ascertained the strength of the ogres, even though he had received the message of Sītā, and making up his mind to lay waste the royal pleasure-garden as a means of ascertaining the strength of the enemy, Hanumān proceeds to do it.

Asking Hanumān, who was ready to depart, to remind Śrī Rāma of his having once painted a decorative mark on her cheek with red realgar, and also of how he threw a reed at the crow assailing her, destroying his right eye thereby, as further tokens of Hanumān having met her, and urging him to apprise Śrī Rāma  of her wretched plight, Sītā grants him leave to depart with her blessings.

Sītā asks Hanumān, when the latter is about to depart with the jewel for her head, to apprise Śrī Rāma and Laksmana of her own welfare and urge them to rescue her. When Sītā expresses her misgivings about the capacity of the heroes on Śrī Rāma’s side to cross the sea, Hanumān expatiates on the might of the monkey heroes and assures her of their ability to cross it, and in the end consoles her by promising to bring Śrī Rāma and Laksmana on his back across the sea in any case.

Asked by Hanumān for a token, Sītā, narrates the episode of a crow, which occurred on the Citrakūta mountain, and asks Hanumān to repeat the story to Śrī Rāma by way of a token. She further sends her greetings both to Śrī Rāma and Laksmana, conveys her inquiry after their welfare and communicates to them her resolve to survive only for a month after the expiry of the time-limit prescribed by Rāvana; and last of all, she hands over to him her jewel for the head as a token.