Śrīmad Vālmīki Rāmāyana (English Translation)

Spurning the advice of Tārā and reproaching her, Vālī goes forth to meet Sugrīva and there ensues a fierce encounter between the two brothers. When, however, Sugrīva is found losing ground, Vālī is s…

Angrily issuing forth for an encounter on hearing the roar of Sugrīva, Vālī is discouraged with cogent reasons by his wife, Tārā.

Śrī Rāma and others remain hiding behind the trees of a grove in the vicinity of Kiskindhā, Sugrīva implores Śrī Rāma to implement his vow of killing Vālī. Assuring Sugrīva that this will be done, Śr…

While going to Kiskindhā alongwith Sugrīva and others with intent to make short work of Vālī, Śrī Rāma sees a delightful grove and inquires of Sugrīva as to whose hermitage it was. Sugrīva tells him …

Amazed to behold Śrī Rāma's arrow re-enter his quiver after piercing all the seven sal trees and penetrating the bowels of the earth, and applauding Śrī Rāma, Sugrīva implores him to make short work …

With a view to ascertaining Śrī Rāma's actual strength, Sugrīva expatiates on the prowess of Vālī and tells him how Māyāvī's brother, the demon Dundubhi too challenged him to a duel and how, having m…

While giving out the reasons of his hostility with Vālī, Sugrīva tells Śrī Rāma how in spite of his trying to pacify his elder brother, the latter exiled him.

Sugrīva tells Śrī Rāma how challenged to a duel at dead of night by a demon, Māyāvī by name, who owed him a grudge on the score of a woman, Vālī sallied forth with Sugrīva and following at the heels …

Congratulating himself as well as his near and dear ones on his having secured the friendship of Śrī Rāma, and sitting on a common bough alongwith the latter, Sugrīva seeks protection from Vālī. Dila…

Consoled by Sugrīva with the assurance that, even though ignorant of the abode of that vile ogre who bore away Sītā, he would see that Śrī Rāma is reunited with her; Śrī Rāma compliments him and prom…

Telling Śrī Rāma that he had come to know from Hanumān all about his misfortune (in the shape of the abduction of his wife) and assuring him that he will have her traced out wherever she may be and r…

Having presented himself before Sugrīva on the Malaya mountain and apprised him of his having brought the two scions of Raghu to Rsyamuka, Hanumān narrates to him the story of the two princes. Please…

Hanumān inquires of Śrī Rāma the purpose of his visit to Pampā. Having narrated to Hanumān, as urged by Śrī Rāma, his life-story up to his separation from Sītā, Laksmana tells him that cultivation of…

Approaching in the guise of a mendicant Śrī Rāma and Laksmana and bowing low to them, Hanumān enquired of them as to who they were and, having narrated to them the story of Sugrīva, apprised them of …

Seeing the two princely brothers and suspecting them to have been sent by his elder brother, Vālī, Sugrīva goes into hiding with his counsellors. There Hanumān reassures him by recourse to reasoning.…

Śrī Rāma and Laksmana visit the hermitage of Śabarī on the brink of the Pampā in the forest named Matangavana, receive her hospitality and go round the forest with her. Casting her body into the sacr…

Appearing in an ethereal form, Kabandha shows to Śrī Rāma and Laksmana the way to Rsyamūka Hill and the Pampā Lake and, giving them information about the grove of Sage Matanga and his hermitage, take…

Appearing in his ethereal form when cremated by Śrī Rāma and Laksmana, Kabandha counsels them to make an alliance with Sugrīva.