[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c5.1115 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1115 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.1115 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1115](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1115) And, Dundubhi accordingly went southward to Kiṣkindhā and challenged Bāli. Terrible as the dark clouds in the sky the dānava who possessed the body and horns of the buffalo—began roaring like hell at the tower gates of Kiṣkindhā, uprooting trees with his horn and tearing the earth with his hoofs. Disturbed by the noise Bāli along with his wife Tārā came out of the palace, and said to Dundubhi : "Look here, please, I am only a King of the monkeys. Why should you, who are so very strong smash my tower?" but, these soft words of Bāli only kindled Dundubhi's anger all the more and his challenges became the fiercer. Then did Bāli, wearing the golden chain given by Indra, rush forth to engage Dundubhi in mortal duel in which the former began gaining more and more strength while the latter got weaker and weaker. Dundubhi took to flight in the skies to save his life. But, the moon dawned then and in the moonlight Bāli and his brother Sugrīva followed Dundubhi, who entered a terrible cave covered by something like a forest of grass. After stationing Sugrīva at the opening of the cave Bāli followed Dundubhi into the cave. Sugrīva waited there one year for the return of Bāli from the cave when one day he witnessed foaming blood flow out of the mouth of the cave, and mistakenly believing that Bāli was dead he closed the mouth of the cave with a huge stone and returned home. But, Bāli, who had then killed Dundubhi kicked off the stone and came out of the cave and followed Sugrīva in a rage. From that day onwards Sugrīva lived at the Rṣyamūka mountain where Bāli had no admission. (Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa, Cantos 9, 11, 46). 5) Curse on Bāli due to the blood of Dundubhi. During Bāli's duel with Dundubhi blood from the body of the latter spurted out to the skies, and it also fell in the hermitage of Mataṅga at Rṣyamūka where the sage Mataṅga was performing tapas. Angered at this the sage cursed him however he might be, who was responsible for blood falling in his āśrama, with death by his head getting broken if he mounted Rṣyamūka. Sugrīva took shelter there because of this curse on Bāli. (Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa, Canto 11) - [Previous: c5.1114](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1114) - [Next: c5.1116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1116) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki.4.11) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1115](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1115) · Pramāṇa