Shri Sita

About Shri Sita

Sita was not born — King Janaka found her as an infant in a furrow while ploughing a field for a yajna, which is why she is called Janaki, Maithili, and Bhumija (earth-daughter). She won Rama as her husband when he alone could lift and break Shiva's great bow at her svayamvara in Mithila. In Ram Darbar images she sits to Rama's left holding a lotus, with Hanuman at their feet. Her appearance day, Sita Navami, and her wedding day, Vivaha Panchami, are celebrated at the Janaki Mandir in Janakpur, her birthplace.