To distract Hanuman and to let nature take its course, Rama dropped his ring into a crack on the floor and asked Hanuman to fetch the ring. The crack led Hanuman to a subterranean realm, where he found countless copies of Rama’s ring. The guardian of the subterranean realm, the serpent-king Vasuki, explained,‘Whenever a ring falls here, a monkey follows it and we know it is time for a Rama to die.
