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Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and Hanumana worship at Gibraltar Hindu Temple, Gibraltar. As part of the Bhakti movement, Rama and Sita became the focus of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, a sannyasi community founded by the 14th-century North-Indian poet-saint Ramananda. This community has grown to become the largest Hindu monastic community in modern times.
The Unmatta-raghava gives a curious tale of Rama. Sita enters into a garden forbidden to the womenfolk and is transformed into a gazelle. Rama wanders in her search and his maddened soliloquies. The s'age Agasta takes pity and relieves Sita of the curse of Durvasa which was the cause of her transformation because once Durvasa disturb by gazelle.
Sita-Rama, a combination of the names of Rama and Sita, is also used as a common greeting in some parts of the world.. Sitaram is a Hindu term for the deity Sita and Rama.It is also used as a greeting by Hindus in the Hindi Belt especially in the Awadh, Bhojpur, and Mithila regions as well as being used by the diaspora in Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Rama and Sita have inspired many forms of performance arts and literary works. [235] Madhubani paintings are charismatic art of Bihar, and are mostly based on religion and mythology. In the paintings, Hindu gods like Sita-Rama are in center with their marriage ceremony being one of the primary theme. [236]
The exile of Rama is an event featured in the Ramayana, [1] [2] [a] and is an important period in the life of Rama.In the epic, Rama is exiled by his father, Dasharatha, under the urging of his step-mother Kaikeyi, accompanied by his wife Sita and half-brother Lakshmana for 14 years. [3]
According to Ramayana, Janaka and Sunayana found Sita while ploughing as a part of a yagna and adopted her. Sita is considered as an avatar of goddess Lakshmi. [7] She later gave birth to Urmila on Jaya ekadashi, who is an avatar of goddess Nagalakshmi. [8] [9] When Sita reached adulthood, Janaka conducted her svayamvara, which was won by Rama.
Arrival of monkey gaja, gavayu, generals before sugriva the monkey general doing the task of conducting a search of sita. After the death of Vali he became king of Kishkinda by the wishes of Rama. He helped Rama to fight Ravana in the war of Lanka. He sent the Vanara Warriors to four sides of earth to search for kidnapped sita.
Trijata accompanies Sita on a survey of the battlefield of the war between Rama and Ravana, and reassures Sita of Rama's well-being when Sita sees her husband unconscious and presumes him dead. In later Ramayana adaptations, Trijata becomes the daughter of Vibhishana, the brother of Ravana who sides with Rama. She plays a much greater role in ...