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Sita
Sita Sita is simultaneously the most revered and most debated feminine figure in Hindu literature — a woman of extraordinary courage and dignity whose trials are also the subject of centuries of feminist reinterpretation. Characters named Sita in modern fiction often carry this ambivalence: the traditional ideal of patient endurance in tension with a fierce, barely suppressed self-determination.
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Sita
Ramayana — Valmiki
The daughter of the earth goddess Bhumi and consort of Rama, whose abduction by Ravana and eventual liberation by Hanuman and Rama's army forms the epic's central narrative arc.
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