Despite Rāma’s words of consolation, out of loving anger, Sītā criticized Him as being incapable of protecting Himself in the forest. She then told Him firmly that she would have no difficulty in living in the forest and informed Him that if He were to leave her in Ayodhyā to go to the forest, she would give up her life by drinking poison and so on, and cried in sorrow. Śrī Rāma then agreed that she could follow Him to the forest and requested her to distribute her jewels, ornaments and other valuables to the brāhmaṇas and others.