Sita Dictionary

 Sita:

the wife of Rama

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Sita (Sanskrit) A furrow; Rama's wife, so named because she is fabled to have sprung from a furrow made by King Janaka while plowing the ground to prepare it for a sacrifice instituted by him to obtain progeny. She was considered an avatara of Lakshmi, Vishnu's consort in the heaven-world. In the Ramayana she is exiled with her husband, stolen by Ravana of Lanka, and finally rescued.

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sita:

the wife of rama in the hindu epic the ramayana and an avatar of the goddess lakshmi

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Sita:

Sita: I am Sita, which means, cool, the cool Moonlight! Wife of Rama (RRV-12), Sita - Goddess Mahalakshmi Herself (RRV-17a).

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Sita:

Sita (Seethaa). Wife of Rama; brought up by King Janaka who found her in a box in the earth. Also, a tributary of the Ganga, flowing westward.

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Sita (-devi)

The eternal consort of Lord Ramachandra. She appeared as the daughter of King Janaka of Videha.

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Sita:

Sita - the wife of Rama

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Sita: consort of Rama

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Sita:

The consort of Rama. Her life is described in Ramayana.

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sita:

sita (seetha). Furrow.

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Sita:

Sita: Wife of Rama; She plays a very important role in the Ramayana: She was kidnapped by the demon Ravana. Also called Janaki, as the daughter of Janaka. She was called Sita or 'furrow' because, reputedly, she was born out of a furrow in the earth made by Janaka during ploughing, to prepare the earth for a yajna, to pray for offspring; that is why she received the nick-name Ayoni-ja, "not born from the womb". (Sita, without ^ means "the clarity of the moonlight", whereas 'candra' of Ramacandra refers to the moon). (RRV-7c) Sita: I am Sita, which means cool, the cool Moonlight! Wife of Rama (RRV-12), Sita - Goddess Mahalakshmi Herself (RRV-17a).

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Sanskrit dictionary. From Advaita to Yoga.

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A dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit terms. From Pada to Svastikasana.

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Ramayana

"The most ancient Sanskrit epic poem, written by the sage Valmiki. It is estimated to have been composed about 500 B.C., and contains approximately 50,000 lines. The Ramayana describes the life of Sri Rama: his banishment from Ayodhya; life in the forest with his faithful wife Sita; Sita's abduction by Ravana; the war of Rama and his allies against Ravana; defeat of Ravana and rescue of Sita; Rama's return to Ayodhya as ruler; slander of Sita by the people of Ayodhya and her banishment from the kingdom; her subsequent exoneration and final ascent to heaven, where she is joined by Rama."

-- Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook

"The Ramayana is a work of the same essential kind as the Mahabharata; it differs only by a greater simplicity of plan, a more delicate ideal temperament and a finer glow of poetic warmth and colour. The main bulk of the poem in spite of much accretion is evidently by a single hand and has a less complex and more obvious unity of structure. There is less of the philosophic, more of the purely poetic mind, more of the artist, less of the builder. The whole story is from beginning to end of one piece and there is no deviation from the stream of the narrative. At the same time there is a like vastness of vision, an even more wide-winged flight of epic sublimity in the conception and sustained richness of minute execution in the detail.

...The eopic poet has taken here also as his subject an Itihasa, an ancient tale or legend associated with an old Indian dynasty and filled it in with detail from myth and folklore, but has exalted all into a scale of grandiose epic figure that it may bear more worthily the high intention and significance. The subject is the same as in the Mahabharata,, the strife of the divine with the titanic forces in the life of the earth, but in more purely ideal forms, in frankly supernatural dimensions and an imaginative heightening of both the good and the evil in human character. On one side is portrayed an ideal manhood, a divine beauty of virtue and ethical order, a civilization founded on the Dharma and realising an exaltation of the moral ideal which is presented with a singularly strong appeal of aesthetic grace and harmony and sweetness; on the other are wild and anarchic and almost amorphous forces of superhuman egoism and self-will and exultant violence, and the two ideas and powers of mental nature living and embodied are brought into conflict and led to a decisive issue of the victory of the divine man over the Rakshasa. All shade and complexity are omitted which would diminish the single urity of the idea, the representative force in the outline of the figures, the significance of the temperamental colour and only so much admitte as is sufficient to humanise the appeal and the significance.

The poet makes us conscious of the immense forces that are behind our life and sets his action in a magnificent epic scenery, the great imperial city, the mountains and ocean, the forest and wilderness, described with such a largeness as to make us feel as if the whole world were the scene of his poem and its subject the whole divine and titanic possibility of man imaged in a few great or monstrous figures. The ethical and the aesthetic mind of India have here fused themselves into a harmonious unity and reached an unexampled pure wideness and beauty of self-expression. The Ramayana embodied for the Indian imagination its highest and tenderest human ideals of character, made strength and courage and gentleness and purity and fidelity and self-sacrifice familiar to it in the suavest and most harmonious forms..."

-- Sri Aurobindo, The Foundations of Indian Culture,

SABCL Vol 14 pp. 289-90

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Agastya:

Agastya: Sage visited by Rama, Sita and Lakshmana while in the Dandaka forest (RRV2-1)

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Jayanta:

Jayanta (Jayantha). Son of Indra. Transformed himself into a crow and pecked at Sita's feet, incurring Rama's wrath.

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Janaka:

Janaka: Emperor of Mithila, father of Sita (RRV-17c) For sure even kings like Janaka [father of Sita, the wife of Rama] and others attained to perfection through this work and also in consideration of what the world needs you should act (BG. Ch. 3: 20)

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Jatayu (Sanskrit) King of the vultures, steed of Vishnu and other gods, son of Aruna and Syeni according to the Mahabharata; or son of Garuda according to the Ramayana.

Jatayu promised his aid to Rama, and when the demon-king Ravena was carrying off Rama's wife Sita, the king of birds gave pursuit, but was mortally wounded after a furious battle with Ravena. In the Puranas, when Rama's father, King Dasaratha, went to the ecliptic to recover Sita from Sani (Saturn), his chariot was consumed by a glance from Sani's eye, but Jatayu caught the falling king and saved him.

"Jatayu is, of course, the cycle of 60,000 years within the great cycle of Garuda; hence he is represented as his son, or nephew, ad libitum, since the whole meaning rests in his being placed on the line of Garuda's descendants" (SD 2:570-71). Birds have been from time immemorial the emblems of migrating and evolving monads.

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Lava:

Lava. Twin son of Rama and Sita.

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Janaka:

Janaka. A self-realized king; Sita's father and Rama's father-in-law. His ancestor was Nimi, a great emperor.

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