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Ramayan Unknown Facts: In the saga of Ramayana, we all know that Mother Sita was the daughter of King Janak, who was found from the ground while he was ploughing. But have you ever heard that Mother Sita was also related to Ravana’s family? There is a story in the wonderful Ramayana which describes Sita as the child of Ravana and Mandodari. Let us know the whole story behind this mysterious birth.
The blood of the sages and that deadly pot
According to the story, Ravana, intoxicated with his power, used to torture the sages. He used to kill sages and collect their blood in an urn. It is said that sage Kutsa was consecrating milk in an urn with special mantras to get Goddess Lakshmi as his daughter. Ravana also mixed that milk in the urn containing his blood. Saddened by this atrocity, the sages had cursed that this blood and the pot would one day become the cause of Ravana’s destruction and his first child would be the basis of his end.
Mandodari’s suicide and pregnancy
Ravana handed over that Kalash to his wife Mandodari and said that it is a strong poison, keep it carefully. After some time, when Mandodari, saddened by Ravana’s behavior, decided to sacrifice her life, she drank all the blood and milk from the same pot, considering it to be poison. Instead of dying from poison, Mandodari became pregnant due to the milk chanted by the sages and divine coincidence. Fearing public shame and Ravana not accepting it, Mandodari decided to leave the fetus somewhere far away.
The land of Mithila and the mystery of the name Sita
Mandodari reached the land of Mithila, far away from Lanka, and there she placed the newborn girl in an urn and buried it in the ground. In those days, there was a severe famine in Mithila. On the advice of the sages, King Janak himself started ploughing. The front part of the plow hit the urn buried in the ground. When King Janak took out the urn, he found a very beautiful girl in it. The girl was named Sita because she met the plow after colliding with it.
Sita became the basis of Ravana’s end
According to the amazing Ramayana, Mother Sita was the result of Ravana’s actions and the curse of the sages. Because she was born from Mandodari’s womb, she was technically Ravana’s daughter, but because she emerged from the land, she was called Bhumisuta. In the end, as the sages had cursed, Sita ji became the main reason for Ravana’s destruction.
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