Rama said to Sugriva, ‘My vow is to protect all those who surrender to Me. Even if the person surrendering is our enemy, to make an exception in his case is wrong. I shall not give up any being that surrenders to Me; even if it involves the sin of slaying a billion Brahmins. I shall guard him and foster him as My own life breath, if he surrenders’. (RKRV, p. 403)