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The widowed Surpanakha spent her time between Lanka and the forests of
Southern India, visiting her Asura, forest-dwelling relatives, from time
to time. According to the Valmiki Ramayana, during one such visit, she
met the exiled Rama,
the young Prince of Ayodhya, and was immediately smitten by his
youthful good looks. Rama, however, spurned her advances, telling her
that he was devoted to his wife, Sita, and that he would never take another wife. Rama then slyly suggested that she approach his younger brother, Lakshmana,
with her proposition. Lakshmana reacted in a similar manner, deriding
Surpanakha and telling her that she was not what he desired in a wife.
Realizing eventually that the brothers were making fun of her, the
humiliated and jealous Surpanakha attacked Sita but was thwarted by Lakshmana, who cut off her nose and sent her back to Lanka.
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