Search for Seeta

On hearing the command of the king of Vanara-s, Sugreeva, Millions and millions of Vanaras/Vanara-s arrive with their troop-leaders to the control of Sugreeva. 

Sugreeva, while describing the lands, rivers, mountains, etc, in each direction,  orders

•   vanara-s to search east under the leadership of Vinata, a mighty vanara,
•  sends Vanara-s to southward, which troop includes Sri Hanuma, Jambavanta, Niila and others and Angada is its leader,
• sends troops to West side to search for Seetha under the leadership of Sushena, the father of lady Tara and 
• sends troops to North side to search for Seetha under the leadership of Shatabali.

Sugreeva ordered that none shall stay behind for more than a month, and if anyone stays, he shall face death by him.   

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Sugreeva holds Sri Hanuma's capabilities very high and reposes full confidence in him for locating Seetha.  He said the following parting words to Sri Hanuma.

"Even by your radiancy none on earth is coming to mind, who can be a coequal of yours, thereby you alone shall think about that process as to how to access Seetha.”

  

On seeing Sugreeva assigning the task to Sri Hanuma, Sri Rama perceives that Sri Hanuma alone can achieve results and thus hands over his ring to Sri Hanuma as a memorabilia enabling Seetha to recognise Sri Hanuma as a messenger from Sri Rama without dismay.

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According to Srimad Ramayana, the search for Seeta began in Aashviyuja Month (September - October).    

Sri Hanuma's search for Seetha, together with Angada and others has started. They search certain mountains and forests belonging to Mt. Vindhya, but in vain. They enter many uninhabited forests and places.  Finally, when they reached the ocean, they found that spring season (Vasantha Kala- March- April ) has arrived.

Vanara-s on arriving at seashore are awestruck to have a glimpse of unnavigable ocean, which is tumultuous with many sea-creatures.Angada noticing the baffle of Vanara-s pacifies them and elicits information about each vanara's capability to jump over the ocean.

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Vanara-s are perturbed to see ocean, which is breadthwise a hundred yojana-s, as none can leap the entire length at a stretch. Every important Vanara says that his capability is just lesser than that of 100 Yojanas.

Jambavanta, the oldest one among all of them, has informed them that though he had great strength in his young age, now in the old age he can go only up to ninety yojana-s, which is short of 10 Yojanas.

Then, Angada says that he was confident that he can jump 100 Yojana-s.  However, Jambavanta stops him saying that being Crown Prince and the leader of the troop, he should not adventure for that task by himself, when he had abled persons for accomplishing the task.

Angada is again despaired as none is coming forward, nor he is allowed to go, in the name of his prospective kingship. But Jambavanta pacifies him and starts to invigorate Sri Hanuma, who is comfortably sitting abiding a lonely place, to undertake the task of leaping the ocean.

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Here, Sri Hanuma is said to be sitting 'comfortably' far from the madding crowd of Vanara-s. When everybody is clamorous how can he sit comfortably - is the doubt. I think, he is pondering over as to how to deal with the situation.

Except Jambavanta, who by his age and experience, and Sugreeva, who watched Sri Hanuma closely, nobody including Vali appears to have understood Sri Hanuma’s capabilities. 

And, Angada being the son of Vali might be having the same opinion that his father had on Sri Hanuma.  Angada did not get an opportunity so far to experience the capabilities of Sri Hanuma.  He might have thought that Sugreeva and Sri Rama overestimated Sri Hanuma.

On one hand, Sri Rama gave his golden ring to Sri Hanuma in the presence of those very same Vanara heroes, and on the other Angada is enquiring all the other Vanara-s of their capabilities for jumping over the ocean.  

Angada did not ask Sri Hanuma directly to go over to Lanka based on Sri Rama’s confidence in Sri Hanuma. If somebody comes forward to leap, then it is well and good and Sri Hanuma has to accompany that Vanara as a standby, because he is handling the ring of Sri Rama.

If none comes forward, even in that event he has to go to Lanka unaccompanied. In either case it is Sri Hanuma who has to go, hence the 'comfortableness' is 'decisiveness'.  He is waiting for the turn of events. 

Jambavanta, being elderly and experienced, might have observed all these things and initiated the action required.