Kiskindhākānda - Canto 8

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. Dilating once more on the wrongs done to him by Vālī in the shape of wresting his wife and so on, he solicits Vālī's death at the hands of Śrī Rāma. Asked to account for this hostile attitude of Vālī, Sugrīva proceeds to relate the circumstances which led to it.