Chapter 35 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 35

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 35.11

किमर्थ वाली चैतेन सुग्रीवप्रियकाम्यया। तदा वैरे समुत्पन्ने न दग्धो वीरुधो यथा॥

kimartha vālī caitena sugrīvapriyakāmyayā| tadā vaire samutpanne na dagdho vīrudho yathā||

English Meaning

Why did not Hanumän, although wishing welfare to Sugrīva, reduce Vāli to ashes like so many creepers on the occasion of his quarrel with Sugriva?

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)