With her bleeding nose, Surpanakha goes to her brother Ravana and provokes him to avenge Rama and his brother. Ravana was not unaware of Rama's mystic powers. He hence decides to abduct his wife Sita by feigning as mendicant. He sends Maricha to take Rama away into forest and call Lakshmana thereafter for help. Maricha does as instructed. Meanwhile, Ravana, feigning as a spiritual man, abducts Sita. Jatayu confronts Ravana but gets slain. Sita drops from sky some of her jewels and torn cloth, so that Rama, on discovering them, may discover which way she has been taken. Such jewels reach the hands of a group of monkeys. When Rama and Lakshmana reach Kishkindha in search of Sita and meet the monkey king Sugriva and his lieutenant Hanuman, these monkeys give to Rama Sita's jewels and pieces of cloth.
