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: History of Religions, (Aug. 1982), pp. 1-24. The story of Ruth is familiar from the Bible. The story of Charila comes from Plutarch's Moralia. The story of Sita comes from the Ramayana. Like Ruth, the story of Sita contains a threefold initial crisis: dynastic disorder, exile, and the kidnapping of Sita by Ravana. Sita is faithful and praised for it, even by her mother-in-law. Even after the initial problems are solved, the crisis continues. Although Sita has been faithful, she is the object of rumor.