"Then, like a naracha arrow released from a bowstring, he flew quickly towards the garden of trees, which was surrounded by mango trees and had hundreds of creepers intertwined." (Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kand, 14.4) "Hanuman Enters the Ashoka Grove" is a collection of seventeen essays discussing the verses from the Ramayana which describe Hanuman's entry into the grove of Ashoka trees in Lanka during his search for Sita Devi.