In the late afternoon of the previous day, Mantharā, Kaikeyī’s hunchbacked maid was strolling on the roof of her palace. She noticed the great festivity taking place in Ayodhyā and Kausalyā’s happy charity of wealth to brāhmaṇas. Wanting to know what this was all about, she asked Rāma’s foster mother (dhātrī) who informed her that it was because of Rāma’s coronation. Mantharā immediately rushed to Kaikeyī, criticized Daśaratha, informed her of Rāma’s coronation and instructed her to stop it. Kaikeyī told her that Rāma’s coronation was to her liking and gifted her an ornament.