King of Lanka, Raavan habitually stored the blood of
all sages that he killed, in a pot. He believed that drinking this blood in
future would make him consume all the yogic supreme powers of all the sages.
Meanwhile,
sage Gritsamada stored all the milk from Darbha grass inside a pot, purifying
it with Mantras, so that with his strict penance he could get Goddess Laxmi as
his daughter. One day, Ravana killed Gritsamada and mixed the entire sacred
milk with the blood of sages. This act enraged Mandodari, and she decided to
drink the pot’s content in order to commit suicide.
Instead of dying, Mandodari
gets impregnated with the incarnation of Goddess Laxmi, due to Gritsamada’s
milk and supreme powers of all sages. She hurriedly buries her daughter in
faraway barren land, where the baby was discovered by King of Mithila. However,
this is one of the most controversial stories of the Hindu mythology. There is
no text that supports the same and the origin of this theory is totally unknown.
