He helps Rama find his wife Sita and fight her abductor, Ravana, in the epic Ramayana.

[3] Sugriva then arranges for vanaras to help Rama and organises the monkey army that will battle Ravana's demonic host.

Angada leads the particular search party, which consists of Hanuman and Jambavanta and is able to find Sita, Rama's wife.

He challenges the present courtiers to move his leg, upon which he promises that he would retreat from the island, forgetting about rescuing Sita.

[7] When his uncle Sugriva decides to retire from the earth and return to his father, Surya, he crowns Angada as the next king of Kishkindha, and of the vanaras.