Camille Bulcke, this motif that Sita was the biological daughter of Janaka, as described in Ramopkhyana Mahabharata was based on the authentic version of Valmiki Ramayana. Janka's biological daughter: In Ramopkhyana of the Mahabharata and also in Paumachariya of Vimala Suri, Sita has been depicted as Janaka's biological daughter.2, Nepal, is also described as Sita's birthplace. Apart from Sitamarhi, Janakpur which is located in the present-day Province No. The Sita Kund pilgrimage site which is located in present-day Sitamarhi district, Bihar, India is viewed as the birthplace of Sita. This story is adapted into Kamban's Ramavataram, a Tamil version of the Ramayana. She was discovered, adopted and brought up by Janaka, king of Mithila and his wife Sunaina. In Valmiki's Ramayana, Sita is said to have been discovered in a furrow in a ploughed field, believed to be Sitamarhi in Mithila region of present-day Bihar, and for that reason is regarded as a daughter of Bhūmi Devi (the goddess earth). This incident was however observed by Janaka and he decided to make it a backdrop for Swayamvara because he wanted a son-in-law who was as strong as his daughter. ĭevi Sita while playing with her sisters in childhood had unknowingly lifted the table over which the bow had been placed this was something that no one in Mithila could do. Her father Janaka had earned the sobriquet Videha due to his ability to transcend body consciousness Sita is therefore also known as Vaidehi. She is called Jānaki as the daughter of Janaka and Maithili as the princess of Mithila. The Kausik-sutra and the Paraskara-sutra associate her repeatedly as the wife of Parjanya (a god associated with rains) and Indra.
O goddess, you are the altar's center in the sacrifice, In Harivamsa, Sita is invoked as one of the names of the goddess Arya: So that you will be well-portioned for us, so that you will be well-fruited for us." "Become inclined our way, well-portioned Furrow. Rigveda 4.53.6, addressed to Agricultural Divinities, states In the Vedic period, she was one of the goddesses associated with fertility. The Sita of the Ramayana may have been named after a more ancient Vedic goddess Sita, who is mentioned once in the Rigveda as an earth goddess who blesses the land with good crops. The word Sīta was a poetic term, its imagery redolent of fecundity and the many blessings coming from settled agriculture. Īccording to Ramayana, Janaka found her while ploughing as a part of a yagna and adopted her. The goddess is best known by the name "Sita", derived from the Sanskrit word sīta, furrow. Rama and Sita in the forest by an Indian painter from 1780 Years later, Sita returns to the womb of her mother, the Earth, for release from a cruel world as a testimony of her purity after she reunites her two sons Kusha and Lava with their father Rama. One day, a man questions Sita's purity and in order to prove her innocence and maintain his own and the kingdom's dignity, Rama sends Sita into the forest near the sage Valmiki's ashram. After proving her purity, Rama and Sita return to Ayodhya, where they are crowned as king and queen. Some scriptures also mention her previous birth being Vedavati, a woman Ravana tries to molest. In some versions of the epic, Maya Sita, an illusion created by Agni, takes Sita's place and is abducted by Ravana and suffers his captivity, while the real Sita hides in the fire. After the war, in some versions of the epic, Rama asks Sita to undergo Agni Pariksha (an ordeal of fire) by which she proves her purity before she is accepted by Rama, which for the first time makes his brother Lakshmana get angry at him. She is imprisoned in the garden of Ashoka Vatika, in Lanka, until she is rescued by Rama, who slays her captor. While in exile, the trio settles in the Dandaka forest from where she is abducted by Ravana, the Rakshasa king of Lanka. After the swayamvara, she accompanies her husband to his kingdom, but later chooses to accompany her husband, along with her brother-in-law Lakshmana, in his exile.
Sita, in her youth, chooses Rama, the prince of Ayodhya as her husband in a swayamvara. Sita is known for her dedication, self-sacrifice, courage, and purity.ĭescribed as the daughter of Bhūmi (the earth), Sita is brought up as the adopted daughter of King Janaka of Videha. She is also the chief goddess of Rama-centric Hindu traditions. She is the consort of Rama, the avatar of the god Vishnu and is regarded a form of Vishnu's wife Lakshmi. Sita ( Sanskrit: सीता IAST: Sītā), also spelt Seeta is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic, Ramayana.