Title: Rama and Sita
Headings: Rama and Sita
Rama and Sita
Articles on Rama and Sita
"Folk Festivals in India"
"Hindu Ethics in the Rāmāyana"
"Lord Rāma and the Faces of God in India"
"On the Adbhuta-Ramayana"
"The Dīvālī, the Lamp Festival of the Hindus"
"The King's Grace and the Helpless Woman"
"Sītā's Birth and Parentage in the Rāma Story"
"Rāma in the Nether World: Indian Sources of Inspiration"

Content: Rama takes her back and they live happily ever after. All three stories have a theme of fertility, rituals of fertility, and seasonal festivals tied to agriculture. In the case of Sita, there are two festivals, one Dussehra, celebated in the month of Asvina (Sept-Oct) and the other Diwali (Oct-Nov) during the sowing of winter crops, as a festival of purification and a return of the goddess of abundance, and the defeat of a demonic evil. 07
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"Sītā's Birth and Parentage in the Rāma Story"
By S. Singaravelu; Asian Folklore Studies, (1982), pp. 235-243. In the Ramayana, Sita is said the have come from a furrow formed by King Janaka of Mithila. In another version, he finds the child in the furrow. Sita is thus connected with the personification of the furrow (sita). There are other variations on the story of the birth and parentage of Sita, including the case where Sita is the daughter of Ravana, prophesied to cause the destruction of Ravana and so put adrift on the sea in an iron box.