Lord Rāma asked the river Godāvarī about Sītā-devī because He considered that she might have gone there to pluck lotuses. Out of fear of Rāvaṇa, the river didn’t tell Him anything about Sītā. Rāmacandra then became dejected and asked the deer since He knew about their gestures. Lakṣmaṇa understood from their gestures that Śrī Sītā had gone towards the southwest, and so both of Them set out in that direction. They noticed a series of flowers fallen on the ground. Śrī Rāma recognized them to be the flowers worn by Sītā-devī. He then observed the footprints of Sītā and Rāvaṇa, and came across the chariot, charioteer, his armor, bow and so on that had been destroyed by Jaṭāyu. When no one including the devas informed Him about what happened to Mother Sītā, He angrily declared that He would turn all the worlds into ashes and placed an arrow on His bow