Sita death place

Sita Sanskrit: meaning "furrow" is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana , a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which details not only the heroic exploits of her husband Lord Rama, but also the sublime love story between Sita and her husband. As the devoted wife of the seventh avatar of Vishnu , Sita is regarded as the most esteemed exemplar of womanly elegance and wifely virtue in Hinduism.

She is also considered to be an avatar of Lakshmi , Vishnu's consort, who chose to reincarnate herself on Earth to provide humankind with a paradigmatic example of good virtue. The Sanskrit word Sita literally means "the line made by the plow" or "furrow," a term held by ancient Indians to be redolent of fecundity and the many blessings that accrue from settled agriculture.

Accordingly, the goddess known as Sita appearing in early Vedic literature is closely connected to the earth and is thought to bless the land with good crops. In various texts, Sita is listed as the wife of gods who hold jurisdiction over the fertile rains, such as Parjanya and even Indra. In the Vajasaneyi-samhita, Sita is invoked when furrows are drawn during a sacrificial ritual.

This Vedic goddess of the fertile earth, though she remains relatively insignificant in these early texts, may represent a prototype of the character Sita who appears in the Ramayana. The role of kings in ancient India was often described in terms of promoting fertility of the land over which they ruled.

Age of sita when she died

Thus the significance of pairing Rama the archetypal ruler with a wife connected to the earth's bounty was readily apparent. Sita was a foundling, discovered nestled in a furrow in a plowed field, and for that reason she has been regarded as a daughter of Bhumidevi, the Hindu earth Goddess. Her discoverers were Janaka, king of Mithila Modern day Janakpur, Nepal and his wife Sunayana, who gave her the name Sita and raised her as their own.

She also inherits the name Janaki as the daughter of king Janaka, and the name Mythili or Maithili as the princess of Mithila. One obscure version of the story, popular in parts of Kerala, even goes so far as to suggest that Sita was a child of Ravana, the demon king of Lanka who would later go on to kidnap her in lust. Upon giving birth to the infant who would grow to be Sita, Ravana's wife Mandodari placed her in Janaka's plow-path since she feared that the child could be the harbinger of her husband's doom.