Sita: Daughter of the Earth, Bride of Heaven. The Complete Story of Rama's Queen Across the Puranas, Epics, and Living T, (Paperback)

<p><i><b>She was born from the Earth. She walked through fire. She was abandoned by a king and raised twin warriors in a forest. And in the end, she returned to where she began.</b></i></p><p><i><b>Sita is the most beloved woman in Hindu civilisation - and the most misunderstood.</b></i></p><p><b>Millions worship her. Poets across a dozen languages have sung her story for three thousand years. Yet most readers know only fragments: the golden deer, the abduction, the fire test, the exile. The full Sita - as theologian, queen, mother, earth goddess, and embodiment of Shakti - remains scattered across Sanskrit epics, regional Ramayanas, Puranas, and living devotional traditions.</b></p><p><b>This book gathers that full story for the first time in a single comprehensive volume.</b></p><p><b>Drawing on Valmiki's <i>Ramayana</i>, the <i>Adhyatma Ramayana</i>, <i>Devi Bhagavata Purana</i>, <i>Brahma Vaivarta Purana</i>, the Tamil <i>Kamba Ramayana</i>, Jain and Buddhist parallel traditions, and the living folk traditions of North India, Kerala, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, <i>SITA: Daughter of the Earth, Bride of Heaven</i> presents the most thorough portrait of Rama's queen available to the modern reader.</b></p><p><b>Inside this book you will discover: </b></p><ul><li><b>The ancient etymology of her name - <i>S&amp;#299;t&amp;#257;</i>, the sacred furrow - and her identity as daughter of Bh&amp;#363;mi Devi, the Earth Goddess</b></li><li><b>How the Puranas expand her beyond the epic - as Lakshmi incarnate, as Prakriti, as Adi Shakti herself</b></li><li><b>A rare Vedic Jyotish analysis of her cosmic archetype - the lunar feminine principle in the nakshatra tradition</b></li><li><b>The world of Mithila and the philosopher-king Janaka - the extraordinary environment that shaped her inner sovereignty</b></li><li><b>All major versions of the Agni Pariksha - including the Chhaya Sita doctrine of the Adhyatma Ramayana - examined without polemic</b></li><li><b>The Lanka captivity in full depth: what Sita actually said to Ravana, her conversations with Trijata, and her spiritual state across months of imprisonment</b></li><li><b>The Second Exile - the most debated moral question in the Ramayana - examined across commentaries and traditions</b></li><li><b>Sita as a single mother in the forest: how she raised Lava and Kusha and transmitted the Ramayana itself to her sons</b></li><li><b>Her presence in Tamil, Jain, Buddhist, and regional folk traditions - how different cultures have loved and reinterpreted her</b></li><li><b>The theology of the Divine Consort in Sri Vaishnavism and the Shakta reading of Sita as the supreme feminine power</b></li><li><b>A guide to living Sita traditions: temples, festivals, and folk songs still alive today</b></li></ul>

• Sita: Daughter of the Earth, Bride of Heaven. The Complete Story of Rama's Queen Across the Puranas, Epics, and Living T, (Paperback)
• Author: Vb Darshan
• ISBN: 9798196307188
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-11
• Page Count: 348