"Vedavati was performing austerities when Ravana, lord of the rakshasas, came into her hermitage and tried to rape her. To save herself. Vedavati jumped into the fire altar and burnt herself to death. Nine months later Mandodari gave birth to a girl child. Oracles discovered that she was Vedavati reborn. “Kill the child who will kill you”, they said. Ravana threw the child into the sea. The sea-god saved it and gave it to the earth-goddess, who gave her toJanaka, king of w;Mithila|Mithila. The child was named [[Sita, "she was furrowed out of the earth”, she went on to be the cause of Ravana’s death"