![]() ![]() ![]() When Ram, was about to be crowned, Queen Kaikeyi asked the King Dasharath to fulfill his promise to her and make her son Bharat the king, exile for Ram for fourteen years. Rama married Sita after stringing and breaking Siva’s bow. Some of the stories also present Sita as being the natural daughter of King Janaka. In other stories, Sita was Ravan’s daughter who was abandoned, put in an urn and buried in a field or set afloat on the ocean. Many versions of the Ramyan hold Sita as being an incarnation of a goddess Lakshmi. In one version of the Ramyana, Sita was the rebirth of a woman named Vedavati daughter of sage Kushadhwaja, who had thrown herself into a fire to escape Ravan’s lust and swore revenge. She was best known by the name Sita, derived from the Sanskrit word sita, which means furrow. Her father Janaka had earned the sobriquet “Videha” due to his ability to transcend body consciousness Sita was therefore also known as Vaidehi. She was called Janaki as the daughter of Janaka Maithili as the princess of Mithila’ as the wife of Ram. For this reason Sita is regarded as a daughter of Bhumi Devi, the goddess of the Earth. Sita was found in a furrow when Janaka was ploughing in a field as a part of a yagna.
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