Vālī
mythological figure · 1 work · 6 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Vālin · lord of the monkeys · son of Indra
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The monkey king of Kiṣkindhā, son of Indra, of immense strength, who slays Dundubhi, fights his brother Sugrīva, and is fatally shot by Rāma from concealment.
— endowed with the qualities of dharma and statecraft, that peerless lord of monkeys, by whom Rāma had been rebuked — Rāma then spoke to Vālī:
Then Vālī, that hardened warrior, struck by Rāma's arrow, fell suddenly like a felled tree.
"Vālī, lord of all the forest-ranging monkeys, spoke to that Dundubhi in measured, clear words: