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e. Sita (Sanskrit: सीता; IAST: Sītā), also known as Siya, Janaki and Maithili, is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana. Sita is the consort of Rama, the avatar of god Vishnu, and is regarded as an avatar of goddess Lakshmi. [12] She is the chief goddess of the Ramanandi Sampradaya and is the goddess of ...
Sita Swayamvara. Indian postal stamp showing Lord Rama stringing the divine bow Pinaka at the Sita Swayamvara Shabha in Mithila. Sita Swayamvara (Maithili: सीता स्वंवर) is a popular event in the history of the epic Ramayana in the Indian subcontinent. The event was related to a competition among the kings in the subcontinent ...
In the Buddhist variant of the Ramayana (Dasaratha Jataka), Dasharatha was king of Benares and not Ayodhya. Rama (called Rāmapaṇḍita in this version) was the son of Kaushalya, first wife of Dasharatha. Lakṣmaṇa (Lakkhaṇa) was a sibling of Rama and son of Sumitra, the second wife of Dasharatha. Sita was the wife of Rama.
— Chant of Mahatma Gandhi containing thirteen syllables. It is known as Śrī Rāma Tāraka mantra (lit. ' The Rama mantra for Salvation '). Rama had three brothers, according to the Balakanda section of the Ramayana. These were Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna. The extant manuscripts of the text describes their education and training as young princes, but this is brief. Rama is portrayed ...
Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 American animated musical romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley.It intersperses events from the Ramayana, light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets, musical interludes voiced with tracks by Annette Hanshaw and scenes from the artist's own life.
The Ramayana tells the story of a prince, Rama of the city of Ayodhya in the Kingdom of Kosala, whose wife Sita is abducted by Ravana, the demon-king of Lanka. The scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th to 4th centuries BCE, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and later stages extending up to the 3rd century CE, [ 9 ] although ...
16 November 2015 (2015-11-16) – 4 November 2016 (2016-11-04) Siya Ke Ram (transl.Sita's Ram) is an Indian television series on Star Plus produced by Nikhil Sinha under the banner of Triangle Film Company. [ 1 ][ 2 ] This show presents the epic Ramayana, the story of Rama and Devi Sita from Sita's perspective. [ 3 ]
Lava (. Ramayana. ) Lava (Sanskrit: लव, IAST: Lava) [1] and his elder twin brother Kusha, are the children of Rama and Sita in Hindu tradition. [2] Their story is recounted in the Hindu epic, Ramayana and its other versions. He is said to have a whitish golden complexion like their mother, while Kusha had a blackish complexion like their ...