(‘furrow’) a goddess in the RV, ruling fields and orchards. Her festival was the ceremonial ploughing of the first furrow in the spring done by the rāja. Also: the name of Rāma’s wife, who is still revered as an embodiment...

An incarnation of the Indian goddess → Lakmi. By her own wish she was born from a freshly ploughed field—hence her name, which means ‘furrow’. She became the wife of → Rāma. Abducted by the king of the → Rakas...

Sita (Sanskrit: सीता; "Sītā", also spelled Seeta) is the wife of Rama, the seventh avatāra of Vishnu, and is esteemed as an exemplar of womanly and wifely virtue. According to Hindu belief, Sita was an avatāra of Lakshmi, Vishnu's consort,...