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With a view to ascertaining Sri Rama's actual strength, Sugriva expatiates on the prowess of Vali and tells him how Mayavi's brother, the demon Dundubhi too challenged him to a duel and how, having made short work of him, Vali listlessly hurled his dead body crossing over to the precincts of the hermitage of Sage Matanga, and how the site of the hermitage having been desecrated with blood, spattered here and there from its mouth, Sage Matanga pronounced a curse forbidding the individual who had perpetrated the sacrilege to enter the hermitage on the pain of death, thus enabling Sugriva to live unmolested in that retreat. In order to convince Sugriva of his superior might, Sri Rama kicks the skeleton of Dundubhi away with his toe. Belittling this feat on the ground of the skeleton having shrunk as a result of exposure, Sugriva further asks Sri Rama to pierce with his arrow one of the seven sal tress standing there and thus demonstrate his strength.Recitation: 00:00 - 14:54Translation: 14:58 - 36:29