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: 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. 08
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"Rāma in the Nether World: Indian Sources of Inspiration"
By Clinton B. Seely; Journal of the American Oriental Society, (Jul. - Oct., 1982), pp. 467-476. This article explores Rama's inconsolable grief when he thinks his half-brother dead and Rama's hard to stomach attitude towards his maligned, but good wife, Sita.