Valli Vadha

Rama killed Valli from behind the tree, is that not Adharma ?

This has been the question from ages and the answer is No.

Rama, the King can and should punish those who commit sins and do not follow Dharma, Valli being the king of KishKindha himself has abducted the wife of Sugreeva when he was alive which is a severe sin.

I just wanted to share some more details on what makes Rama the King.....

As you all know Sri Rama along with Sita and Lakshmanamurthy were in "Aranya Vasam"

What authorizes him now to declare himself as emperor and punish Valli even if Valli commited sin??

During Ayodhya kanda "Bharata requests Rama in all possible ways to come back and rule the empire and that he will not be able to rule it"

Rama convinces Bharata that Rama has to be in Aranya if he were to keep his father away from the sin of falsehood and just because Kaikai is ready to take back the boons that were granted to her or because Bharata is ready to offer the kingdom to Rama he cannot go back to the kingdom.

Having said this Rama consoles Bharatha by saying Bharata you go back and rule the empire from Ayodhya and take care of people there and I will rule the Aranya and will control the peace in this aranya by ruling all the animals over here.

Valli is the son of Indra (the emperor of Amaravathy) and so he became the king of Vanaras all over the earth and ruled over them with "Kish Kindha" as his capital

Dasaradha maharaja was the sole emperor of the entire earth as he has performed AshwaMedha yagam before Rama's birth and the Yaga Ashwam has covered the whole earth in 1 year and came back with out being confronted by any one.

So Kish Kinda is a part of Kosala Rajyam and is part of Aranya so Rama is now the emperor of this part of earth.

Now let me add a few more details:

Dhanur veda says any person should do “Dhansuh tankaram” before actually releasing arrows from his bow, and Rama is sarva veda kovidha and knows all Vedas, Puranas, Sastra, and Dharma so he will also follow what dhanur veda says and so he always does “Dhanush Tankaram” before attempting to release his arrows at his opponents.

When Sri Ramachandra Murthy does Dhanush tankaram its so fearful that some thousands of birds and thousands of animals first die after hearing the sound, some of these birds fly away and all the creatures will be frightened and run away from the forest as far as possible.

Sri Ramachandra murthy does the same before he hit Valli with his arrow and the same happened here also, this makes it clear that Valli also saw Rama before he was hit by Rama but the speed of Rama’s arrows is beyond anybody’s imagination it will be explained in Kish Kindha kanda.

So Rama might have been behind the bushes when he released the arrow BUT he was not invisible when he released the arrow.

On top of this Rama don’t really need to be the king to kill Valli, Rama is a Kshatriya by birth and kshatriya dharma says he can hunt animals if they are harmful or he can kill humans\asuras if they are harmful to others.

Moreover Rama had to punish Valli for one reason beyond all “Rama Vigrahavan Dharma Saduh Satya Parakramah” so if rama were to remain on his path of dharma he has to kill Valli because he knows that Valli has commited a sin and he as a king, has to punish Valli for the following 2 reasons

• If Rama don’t punish Valli then rama will get the sin
• If Rama punishes Valli, then Valli will be set free from his sin

After this “Valli himself accepts that Rama was right in killing him and that he was at fault and not Rama”

Again the final conclusion that I would like to give beyond which there is no scope for arguments

In Yudha kanda Lakshmanamurthy had to confront, fight and defeat Indrajeet and he released an arrow on Indrajeet after chanting all the Asthras of Dhanurvedam on a dual headed serpent like arrow but still Indrajeet was not defeated.

Lakshmana recites a sloka this is called as Moola Manthram for Ramayanam

darmaatma satya sandastya - raamo daasaradhiir yadhi
Paurushaecha pratiidwandhwa - SarayNam jahi raaviniim ||

This sloka proves that Rama has always walked using 2 feet Dharma and Satya and so this story of Rama is called as "Ramayana: The ayana of Rama using Dharma and Satya"

Sarwam Srii UmaamaheSwara ParaBramhaarpanamastu ||