The wisdom of Tara

Sri Rama encourages Sugreeva to challenge Vali for a duel. Accordingly a duel ensues, wherein Vali assaults Sugreeva and chases him off. Battered and belittled, Sugreeva implores upon Sri Rama why he did not come to his rescue. Sri Rama apologetically states that he could not make out difference between the two brothers for they are alike. 

Sri Rama asks Sugreeva to wear a garland and again challenge Vali, so with that identification of garland he could aim his arrow at the other dueller. Again they all advance towards Kishkindha for another duel with Vali.

Lakshmana plucked out and garlanded Sugreeva with a creeper, which will differentiate him from Vali. Sugreeva again requests Sri Rama to ascertain whether he is prepared to eliminate Vali this time.

Sri Rama assures Sugreeva that he will not deviate from what he has promised, and he never would, and asks Sugreeva to challenge Vali by way of inviting him for a duel. Sugreeva blares out inciting Vali to the duel.  On hearing Sugreeva's outcry Vali's prudence is diminished as high furore superimposed on it.

Tara, the wife of Vali, stops him for having another duel with Sugreeva.  She reasons that earlier Sugreeva came inviting him for a combat but fled away after being battered by Vali. 

She also reasons that she does not think Sugreeva has come again unaccompanied and unsupported and Sugreeva must have lot of confidence on that supporter.

She discloses that their son Angada gathered from his spies that sons of the king of Ayodhya, valiant and unconquerable ones in war, called Sri Rama and Lakshmana, entered in their province and made friendship with Sugreeva.

Tara advises Vali not to confront Sugreeva as long as Sri Rama stands guard to him. Further, she questions why not Sugreeva be made the Crown Prince of Kishkindha, even at that juncture, where she foresees a calamity to Vali.

She also says that making compromise with Sugreeva and solidarity with Sri Rama by discarding enmity, in effect is appropriate for him. 

Lady Tara is introduced here. She is depicted as a wise female in the epic. She enters and speaks only thrice in the entire epic, presently here, next at the fall of Vali and later to pacify the ire of Lakshmana.  Her wise councelling and her depth of intuition are introduced here.

As a general rule, men are endowed with physical prowess but coming to intuition part they are in no way come nearer to women.  A prudent man will listen to his woman’s advice, and a foolish one ignores her.  Vali, blinded by his physical might, neglected her advice.

Tara is saying indirectly that Vali is not at all polite in treating Sugreeva either as crown prince of Kishkindha or as his own younger brother.

GOD gives an advice even to a cruel person, through somebody nearer to him, for mending himself, before eliminating him.  If that persons listens, further course of action takes place otherwise elimination will take place.