![]() With rumours questioning the purity of the queen while she was Ravana’s captive, Rama abandons a pregnant Sita in the forest. ![]() Rama and Sita return to Ayodhya, where they are crowned as king and queen. Sita is rescued but must prove her chastity by undergoing a trial by fire. While in exile, she falls victim to the carnal desires of the demon-king Ravana and is carried off to the kingdom of Lanka, an action that results in an epic war. ![]() Soon after her marriage to Rama, she is forced into exile with her husband and brother-in-law Lakshmana to the Dandaka forest. ![]() In the Ramayana, Sita is described as born from Mother Earth (goddess Bhūmi). Rama and Sita are the hero and heroine of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, and as such they are central characters in the puppet theatre, shadow theatre, dance theatre and actors’ theatre in India and South East Asia. The Sanskrit word sīta means furrow, a name which connects her to the ancient Vedic goddess Sita, an earth goddess associated with fertility. Among her other names are Bhumije and Janaki. An avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, wife of Hindu god Vishnu, Sita (also spelled Sîta, Seeta or Seetha) is the wife of Rama, the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu on Earth. ![]()
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