Sita’s Family Tree

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Family

• Rama(spouse),Kusha(child),Lava(child)— Marriage

  Rama married Sita after breaking Shiva's bow at her svayamvara in Mithila. Their twin sons Lava and Kusha were born during Sita's second exile at Valmiki's hermitage.

• Bhudevi(parent)— Miraculous

  Sita emerged from the earth, born of the goddess Bhudevi. At the end of her life, Sita called upon her mother and the earth opened to receive her back.

• Janaka(parent)— Adopted

  King Janaka discovered the infant Sita in a furrow while plowing a field for a Vedic sacrifice. He adopted and raised her as his beloved daughter in the kingdom of Videha.

Aspect of

• Lakshmi

  Sita is considered an incarnation of Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune, who descended to earth to accompany Vishnu's avatar Rama as his divine consort.

Allied with

• Jatayu

  Jatayu tried to prevent Ravana from abducting Sita, fighting the demon king in midair. Ravana severed Jatayu's wings, but the dying vulture lived long enough to tell Rama which direction Ravana had flown.

• Lakshmana

  Lakshmana served as Sita's protector during the exile. He drew the Lakshman Rekha to guard her from harm, but Sita crossed it when Ravana came disguised as a brahmin.

Guarded by

• Valmiki

  Valmiki sheltered the exiled Sita in his hermitage, where she gave birth to the twins Lava and Kusha. He raised and educated her sons, teaching them to recite the Ramayana.

Enemy of

• Ravana

  Ravana abducted Sita from Dandaka forest and held her captive in Lanka's Ashoka grove, demanding she become his queen. Sita refused him throughout her captivity.

• Shurpanakha

  Shurpanakha's attempted seduction of Rama and attack on Sita led Lakshmana to mutilate her. Shurpanakha's humiliation drove her to seek Ravana's vengeance, directly causing Sita's abduction.

Associated with

• Agni,Rama

  When Rama demanded Sita prove her purity after captivity in Lanka, she walked into the flames, and Agni bore her forth unburned, testifying before the assembled gods and armies that she was untouched and blameless.

• Hanuman

  Hanuman found Sita captive in Ravana's Ashoka grove in Lanka. He delivered Rama's signet ring as proof of identity, and Sita gave him her hair jewel to carry back to Rama.

• Kaikeyi

  Kaikeyi's boons forced Rama into fourteen years of exile. Sita chose to accompany Rama into the forest rather than remain in the palace, sharing every hardship of the exile Kaikeyi caused.

• Lanka

  Ravana carried Sita to Lanka and imprisoned her in the Ashoka Vatika, where she refused his advances and endured captivity for nearly a year. Hanuman found her there weeping beneath a shimshapa tree, and Rama's war to free her consumed the golden city in flame.

• Maricha

  Maricha disguised himself as a golden deer to lure Rama away from Sita. His deception created the opening for Ravana to abduct Sita from the forest hermitage.