Returning to consciousness, Śrī Rāma wails over the lot of Laksmana and the monkeys too fall a prey to extreme despondency on seeing Śrī Rāma wailing as aforesaid. Seeing Vibhīsana approach Śrī Rāma in the meantime, they all take to their heels, mistaking him for Indrajit.

“Those well-versed in physiognomy and palmistry had prophesied that I would never be widowed and would bear sons. How could their predictions prove untrue?” While Sītā was absorbed in these thoughts on beholding Śrī Rāma and Laksmana, Trijatā reassures her on the strength of good omens and, cheering her soul, takes her back to the Aśoka grove.

Indrajit having re-entered Lankā, Hanumān and other monkeys encompass Śrī Rāma and Laksmana and guard their bodies. Having dismissed Indrajit, Rāvana commands the ogresses guarding Sītā to take her to the field of battle and show her the plight of Śrī Rāma and Laksmana. The ogresses, headed by Trijatā, accordingly take her in the aerial car, known by the name of Puspaka, and show her the two princes lying unconscious and motionless on the ground. Sītā bursts into a piteous wail on seeing her husband and brother-in-law in that plight.

Though itching to killl the enemy on beholding Śrī Rāma and Laksmana enmeshed in a network of snakes, the monkeys, who were unable to perceive him, feel frustrated. Vibhīnasa exhorts Sugrīva, who was seized with fear on finding Indrajit hidden under the cloak of witchcraft, to take heart and not to give way to fear. Concluding the two brothers to be dead, Indrajit, for his part, triumphantly enters Lankā and is welcomed by his father.

Distressed to perceive the two scions of Raghu bound by Indrajit in a network of arrows and pierced with other fierce arrows, the monkeys give way to utter despondency.

During the nocturnal engagement the monkeys too dauntlessly offer a stiff fight to the ogres even though they were fighting against heavy odds inasmuch as the strength of ogres gets doubled at night, and felt highly rejoiced to find Indrajit vanquished by Angada. Śrī Rāma and Laksmana too put to flight numberless foes with their shower of arrows. Eventually, however, they are both bound by Indrajit in a noose of serpents.

In the course of duels the ogres and the monkeys, in which Angada closes with Indrajit, the heads of Durdharsa, Mitraghna, Agniketu and Yajñakopana are lopped off by Śrī Rāma and that of Nikumbha by Nīla and, killed by Susena, Vidyunmālī drops down dead.

Approaching Rāvana, the ogres break to him the news about Lankā having been laid siege to by the monkeys led by Śrī Rāma. Ascending the roof of his palace and taxing his brain about the means of putting an end to the monkeys, he casts a look at Śrī Rāma and the monkeys. Pained at the thought that Sītā was being bullied by Rāvana on his account, and commanding the monkeys to besiege all the four gates of Lankā and to destroy the ogres, Śrī Rāma, on the other side, takes up his position alongwith Laksmana near the northern gate. Apprised of these developments, Rāvana mobilizes his army and, encouraged by him, the ogres beat their drums and emit a terrible roar.

Śrī Rāma is not very pleased with the daring act of Sugrīva inasmuch as he had seen evil portents. Warning him against such action on the ground of his being a sovereign, and commanding the monkey generals to besiege all the four gates of Lankā, he dispatches Angada to expostulate with Rāvana and bring him to reason. Angada tries his best to bring him round, but in vain, and returns unsuccessful to the presence of Śrī Rāma after threatening the ogres.

Ascending the highest peak of the Suvela mountain alongwith a division of his army, Śrī Rāma catches sight of Rāvana perched on the top of a gate of his palace. Infuriated at his very sight, Sugrīva springs upon him by surprise from the mountain-top, throws down the diadem from his head, struggles with him for a long time and, eluding him, returns victorious to the presence of Śrī Rāma.