Vānaras
Vāli
King of Kiṣkindhā, son of Indra. Vālmīki gives Vāli one of the strongest speeches in the epic, and Rāma a full reply.
Kiṣkindhā KāṇḍaVālmīki (primary text)In the text
Vāli is Aṅgada's father and Sugrīva's elder brother. Rāma kills him to keep his pact with Sugrīva. In sarga 17 Vāli speaks against it, and in sarga 18 Rāma replies, before Vāli dies. The exchange runs to two full sargas, and readers have argued about it ever since.
Primary text: Śrīmad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa, Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Later traditions and living-tradition associations are labelled as such. Return to the Rāmāyaṇa World.