The story continues as Rama goes and says bye to everyone as he is leaving to go on exile and follow his father's commands. Once he is done saying bye, Lakshman, Sita and Rama take off to go to the forest. The sorrow of having to send his son in exile causes king Dasharatha to pass away. Since Ayodhya was left ruler less, Kaikeyi sends for her son to be brought back immediately. Once Bharatha is back, he questions all this misery in Ayodhya and asks what has happened. When he learns what his own mother has done, he curses her in shame and embarrassment. He travels to Chitrakuta with the whole army and the men and women of Ayodhya to bring Rama back. This made the gods, worried and so they told them that Rama would have to complete the fulfillment and Bharatha would have to take the duties of king while Rama was in exile.
Rama scared that the people of Ayodhya would keep coming to ask him to return goes deeper into the forest. On his journey to find the perfect place, he meets a sage named Atri and his wife Anasuya. Anasuya gives all of her jewelry and clothes to Sita and insists she puts them on right away. Next, they meet Jatayu, who was a friend of King Dashratha. They were so close at one time that the King was quoted saying, " You are the soul, I am the body. We are one." These events ended with them reaching their destination, which was Panchavati on the Godavari River.
Once day after they had built their house and settled down, Rama met the sister of Ravana, Soorpanaka. She was really beautiful and it is said that all the gods wanted her. She fell in love with Rama and insisted that he marry her. Soorpanaka being jealous of Janaki tried to attack her, but before she could Lakshmana cut off her nose, ears, and breasts. Infuriated, she ran to Kara, Ravana's stepbrother. Hearing what had happened, he sent an army of his 14 chiefs to defeat Rama, but even they weren't capable. Then, he gathered his own army and went out there himself, but was also defeated by Rama. Seeing this from afar, Soorpanaka ran to Lanka, the kingdom of Ravana, her brother.
When Ravana saw what had happened to Soorpanaka, he asked who had done it and Soorpanaka told him about Rama, Lakshmana , and Sita. The descriptive details of Sita got Ravana to fall in love with the image of Sita. Now that he had heard of her beauty, he had to have her. He went to see his uncle, Maricha, whom told Ravana not to go through with his plans, but Ravan is stubbornly continued. The plan was for Maricha to turn into a golden deer and get Rama and Lakshmana out of the house. Rama realizes that he had been fooled took out an arrow and shot the deer. This gave Ravana a chance to approach Sita as a sanyasi. He picked up the soil around her and put her in the chariot to take her with him, since he was cursed for never being able to touch a women without their consent. When he is running off with Sita, he fights off and kills Jatayu, who vowed to protect her but is unable to.
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