Aug 18, 2007

Chapter 86: Story of Sugreev

Rama asks the story of Sugreev. Sugreev says that Vaali got a vow that half of the strength of the enemies would become his every time he kills the enemy (both physically and kingdom-wise). He infact had kept Ravana inside his (S's) armpit for 3 months, squeezing his breath away.

Now, it so happened that that one night, while Vaali was sleeping, a powerful Rakshasa called Mayavi came and said ill things to Vaali, ridiculing the might of Vaali. Vaali became angry and set off to kill him.

A big fight ensues between Vaali and the magical rakshas, before which by the grace of Vaali’s vow, half the power of enemy goes to Vaali. Hence in the fight, Vaali is the outright winner. Sugreev comes to help. But the other rakshas run away.

Both Vaali and Sugreev chase him to kill him. But Rakshas goes inside a cave. Vaali tells Sugreev that if he doesn’t come back within 15 days, then take care of wife and kid (or something on those lines implying that he will be dead).

Vaali goes inside the cave. He finds rakshas and fights him. The blood of the rakshas pours out of the cave and rakshas dies. Waiting Sugreev sees blood and assumes the worst. But still he waits despite it is now almost 30 days.

The family of the killed Mayavi Rakshas then attacks Vaali who easily takes care of all of them. This extra time during which blood has come out of the cave but Vaali did not exit cave makes Sugreev think that Vaali is dead. Hence he thinks of a plan. With the help of huge boulder, covers the entrance of the cave so that no rakshas can come out, without knowing that Vaali is still inside, fighting. Crying, Sugreev goes back. He informs Vaali’s wife of Vaali’s death.

All the praja then unanimously vote Sugreev as their king. Unwilling Sugreev is forced to become king. Just when he is about to be throned, Vaali enters the kingdom, after having killed all the rakshas and having pushed the boulder. Without waiting for any explanations, he attacks Sugreev. Sugreev, not wanting to fight, nor able to explain - gets almost killed, when Hanuman and Jambuvan, his close pals, help him towards the mountain. No one can go to that mountain because of its steepness. Only Hanuman and Jambuvan because of the Mammoth Hulk structure and flying capability. Since the day, Sugreev came to this mountain and he is safe as Vaali could not come near him, but Vaali wants to desperately kill Sugreev.

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