GK
INDIAN CULTURE
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Question
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How was Sita related to Janaka?
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She was his mother
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She was his wife
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She was his foster-daughter
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None of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In the Sanghadasa’s Jaina Version of Ramayana, Goddess Sita takes birth as Vasudevahindi, daughter of Ravana and his wife Vidyadhara Maya. Also, Sita is a resurrection of Vedavati.
Detailed explanation-2: -The legend behind Devi Sita’s birth is divine and supernatural. She did not emerged from a mothers’s womb, rather she appeared miraculously in a furrow, while king Janaka was ploughing the field as part of Vedic ritual in the kingdom of Videhas (also known as Mithila), an ancient Indian kingdom in late Vedic India.
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