Kiskindhākānda - Canto 9

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 of the demon, who ran away on seeing him, and reaching the mouth of a cave, asked Sugrīva on oath to stay out, himself entering the cave. Since Vālī did not come out for a whole year and as from a confused din coming out of the cave as well as from a stream of blood issuing from it, it was concluded that Vālī had met his death at the hands of the demon, Sugrīva closed the mouth of the cave with a rock and, offering water to the spirit of his deceased elder brother, returned to Kiskindhā, where the ministers of Vālī installed him on the latterís throne in his absence. In the meantime Vālī returned from the cave and reprimanded Sugrīva for his having usurped Vālī's throne.