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Sita (Sanskrit: 8@$>; "S+t
", Khmer: “¶„ ź¸Š¶?; Neang Sida, Malay: Siti Dewi, Thai: Nang Sida, Lao: Nang Sanda, Tagalog: Putri Gandingan) is the wife of Rama, the seventh avat
ra of Vishnu in the Hindu tradition. She is esteemed as the standard setter for wifely and womanly virtues for all Hindu women. Understood theologically in Hinduism, Sita is an avat
ra of Lakshmi, one of the forms of the Goddess or Shakti, who chose to reincarnate Herself on earth as Sita and endure an arduous life in order to provide humankind with an example of good virtues. Sita is one of the principal characters in the Ramayana, a Hindu epic named after Her husband Rama.

Sita was a foundling, discovered in a furrow in a ploughed field, and for that reason is regarded as a daughter of Bhudevi, the Goddess Mother Earth. She was found and adopted by Janaka, king of Mithila (present day Nepal) and his wife Sunayana. Upon her coming of age, a swayamwara was held to select a suitable husband for her, and she was wed to Rama, prince of Ayodhya, an avatara of Vishnu.


Ravana abducts Sita, by Ravi Varma
[edit] Exile and abduction
Main article: Ramayana
Some time after the wedding, circumstances forced Rama to leave Ayodhya and spend a period of exile in the forests of Dandaka. Sita willingly renounced the comforts of the palace and joined her husband in braving the travails of exile, even living in Dandaka forest. However, she had to endure a lot of pain as the forest became the scene for her abduction by Ravana, King of Lanka. Ravana kidnapped Sita, disguising himself as a brahmana mendicant while her husband was away fetching a magnificent golden deer to please her. All this was done to claim vengeance on Rama and his brother Lakshmana for having cut off the nose of Ravan's sister. Jatayu, the vulture-king, who was a friend of Rama's, tried to protect Sita but Ravana chopped off his wings. Jatayu survived long enough to inform Rama of what had happened.

Ravana held Sita captive in his distant island realm. She was finally rescued by Rama, who waged a famous battle to defeat Ravana. Since Sita was kept in captivity by Ravana all this time, she had to go through the 'Agni-Pariksha', the test of going through the fire, in order to prove her chastity to the world.

In Hindu dharma, every action has results irrespective of the stature of the person. A school of thought states that Rama questioned Sita on her integrity as a punishment for her questioning the integrity of Lakshmana, who had left all his comfort and served Rama and Sita for 14 years.


[edit] Later life
The couple returned to Ayodhya, where Rama was crowned king with Sita by his side. While Rama's trust and affection for Sita never wavered, it soon became evident that some people in Ayodhya could not accept Sita's long captivity under the power of Ravana.


[edit] Sita's second exile
During Rama's period of rule, an intemperate washerman, while berating his wayward wife, declared that he was "no pusillanimous Rama who would take his wife back after she had lived in the house of another man". This calumnious statement was reported back to Rama, who knew that the aspersion cast on Sita was entirely baseless. Nevertheless, his position as the ruler undermined by the ever-present possibility of slander attaching itself to his hitherto unimpeachable dynasty and personal reign. It was this train of thought that led Rama to remove Sita from his household.

Sita was thus forced into exile a second time; She was not only alone this time but also pregnant. She attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Ganges but she was rescued by the sage Valmiki. He gave her refuge in his hermitage, where she delivered a son named Lava. Once day Sita left her son with Valmiki, and went to the river bank to fetch water. Valmiki called out for the baby but heard no response; in a state of concern, he created by his ascetic power another baby with kusha (grass) in the exact resemblance of Lava. When Sita returned, She found two sons of the same virtue because Lava came back from the forest on hearing his mother call out. She heard the story from Valmiki about why he had to create Kusha and accepted both sons as her own.

In the hermitage, Sita raised her sons alone, as a single mother.[1] They grew up to be valiant and intelligent, and were eventually united with their father. Once she had witnessed the acceptance of her children by Rama, Sita sought final refuge in the arms of her mother Bhumidevi, the Goddess Mother Earth. Hearing her plea for release from an unjust world and from a life that had rarely been happy, the earth dramatically split open; Bhumidevi appeared and took Sita away to a better world. But this part of Ramayana is disputed and it is said that Rama and Sita lived together happily, ruling their kingdom for 11,000 years (considered a common lifespan in that age, the Treta Yuga). According to this version, Sita was only sent into a 14-year exil

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