Women / Persons ~ P16450
Sita the Consort of Rama
Alternate Names:
- Sîta
- Seeta
- Seetha
- Siya
- Vaidehi
- Janaki
- Maithili
- Bhoomija
- Sītā
- Seetā
Gender: Female
Life Dates:
Types:
- Asian, South
- Beauty, celebrated
- Expatriated, exiled person
- Legendary
- Literary character
- Mother, model of family life
- Mythical
- Prisoner or captive
- Royalty
- Ruler
- Wife of notable man
Note: Although Sita is considered to be a Hindu deity, avatar of the goddess Lakshmi, Pool rejects this in his biography. He takes a euhemerist approach to Hindu myth and treats Sita as a historical figure. The Bhattacharyya biography emphasizes mythic parallels - contrasts Sita with Eve and Helen of Troy, concludes that she "towers majestically over truth and fiction" (47)