[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) › c9.204 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.204 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.204 - **Language:** English ### [c9.204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.204) 33) \*The end.\* Śrī Rāma’s reign became all the more prosperous. It was during this period that Rāma, as desired by the munis in the Yamunā plain, killed Lavaṇāsura, son of Madhu in the great city called Durga in the centre of the Madhu forest. (For details see under Lavaṇa). After Lavaṇa’s death, a sect of Gandharvas called Śailūṣas, who lived on the shores of the eastern sea, proved to be enemies of Ayodhyā. Śrī Rāma annihilated them also. Kaikeyī began getting jealous of the prosperity and happiness of Sītā. One day when Rāma had gone to hunt in the forest, Kaikeyī closely questioned Sītā over particulars in Laṅkā and prevailed upon her, overruling her unwillingness, to draw a picture of Rāvaṇa. Sītā drew on a piece of ‘sitting-plank’ Rāvaṇa’s figure with the ten heads. Kaikeyī took away the picture on the pretext of exhibiting in the ladies’ quarters, and gave it to Rāma, when he returned from hunting, to sit on at the time of Pūjā (worship). Rāma got angry to find Rāvaṇa’s picture drawn on the ‘sitting plank’. Kaikeyī then told him that it was Sītā, who had drawn the picture and also that she usually praised Laṅkā and Rāvaṇa. Rāma pronounced the death penalty on Sītā for having drawn Rāvaṇa’s picture. The inmates of the palace shuddered to hear the judgement. When Lakṣmaṇa seated Sītā on the floor to kill her, Bhūmidevī (earth) rent itself open into two and carried her off through the opening. - [Previous: c9.203](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.203) - [Next: c9.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.205) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.204) · Pramāṇa