- Sita's Birth
- Janaka Rishi: a pious man (and Maharajah) who lived as a simple farmer
- The King-farmer was ploughing his fields when he encountered a gold pitcher buried in the ground
- It contained a baby girl, who he promptly and happily adopted as his daughter
- Her name Sita comes from the furrows she was found in (sitas)
- He mother gave birth to another daughter a year after Sita was found, named Urmila
- Adolescence
- Sita was a Goddess of Beauty, apparently. She also believed that Janaka and the Queen were truly her parents.
- At the age of 14, many suitors were asking for her hand, and the Maharajah (likely being bad at decision-making) proposed a test instead
- The bow of the Brahmin Parashurama
- In a slight deviation from the usual story, apparently Parashurama said that Janaka should have Sita marry whatever man could break the bow
- As we know, Prince Rama (age 16) snapped it in half
- They were married: the Sun-Prince and the Moon-Princess
- Marriage
- Sita and Rama were surprisingly happy, considering the circumstances
- "Rama with his deep and loving voie was filing her heart...A dark handsome face, and a pair of love-illuminated eyes gazed into her own making the world a place of sunshine, which was heaven itself for her."
- Rama takes her home to meet his mother, who pulls them aside after the ceremonies are through and speaks to them with a mother's affection and pride, and cries tears of joy.
- She loved Sita, eventually as much as her own son
- But while celebrating their wedding with Rama's people, he notices a drop of blood on Sita's forehead
- He removes the crown to find a big thorn in it, and the author foreshadows it to be her throne of sorrows
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