[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.1703 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1703 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1703 - **Language:** English ### [c8.1703](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1703) Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa went to Laṅkā with an army of monkeys and after killing Rāvaṇa took Sītā to Ayodhyā. Then Rāma in deference to public opinion put Sītā into the fire to test her purity. At that time god Agni taking back Māyāsītā gave the real Sītā to Rāma, unscathed by the fire. Then, when Māyāsītā was thus abandoned by Rāma she bowed down before Śrī Rāma and Agni and asked them thus "What am I to do now? Where should I go?" They advised her to go to Puṣkara and do penance there and blessed her saying that at the successful end of her penance she would become Svargalakṣmī. Paramāśiva was pleased by her penance and appearing before her asked her what boon she wanted. Māyāsītā who had become Svargalakṣmī then requested Śiva to give her a husband. She repeated the request 'Patim dehi' (Give me a husband) five times and Śiva said that she would have five husbands in her next life as the daughter of the King of Pāñcāla with the name Kṛṣṇā. (9th Skandha, Devī Bhāgavata). - [Previous: c8.1702](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1702) - [Next: c8.1704](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1704) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) ## Cites (1) - [Devībhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1703](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1703) · Pramāṇa