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sītāसीताf. (less correctly written śītā; cf. sīmán, sīra) a furrow, the track or line of a ploughshare (also personified, and apparently once worshipped as a kind of goddess resembling Pomona; in [RV. iv, 57, 6], Sītā is invoked as presiding over agriculture or the fruits of the earth; in [VS. xii, 69]-[72], Sītā ‘the Furrow’ is again personified and addressed, four furrows being required to be drawn at the ceremony when the above stanzas are recited; in [TBr.] she is called sāvitrī, and in [PārGṛ.] indra-patnī, ‘the wife of Indra’; in epic poetry S° is the wife of Rāmacandra and daughter of Janaka, king of Mithilā, capital of Videha, who was otherwise called Sīradhvaja; she was named Sītā because fabled to have sprung from a furrow made by Janaka while ploughing the ground to prepare it for a sacrifice instituted by him to obtain progeny, whence her epithet Ayoni-jā, ‘not womb-born’; her other common names, Maithilī and Vaidehī, are from the place of her birth; according to one legend she was Vedavatī q.v., in the Kṛta age; accord. to others she was an incarnation of Lakṣmi and of Umā; the story of Rāma's bending the bow, which was to be the condition of the gift of Sītā, is told in [R. i, 67]; Sītā's younger sister Urmilā was at the same time given to Lakṣmaṇa, and two nieces of Janaka, daughters of his brother king Kuśa-dhvaja, to Bharata and Śatrughna), [RV.] &c. &c., [IW. 335 n. 1]; [337] &c.
N. of a form of Dākṣāyaṇī, [Cat.]
of a poetess, [Cat.]
of a river, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
of the eastern branch of the four mythical branches of the heavenly Ganges (into which it is supposed to divide after falling on mount Meru; this branch is fabled to flow into the Varṣa or Dvīpa called Bhadrāśva), [L.]
of an Upaniṣad, [Cat.]
spirituous liquor, [W.]
sītāphalaसीताफलsītā—phala m. ‘bearing Sitā's fruit’, Annona Squamosa, [MW.]
sītā—phala n. the fruit itself, [ib.]
sītāhāraसीताहारsītā°hāra (°tāh°), m. ‘Sītā's food’, Lycopodium Phlegmaria, [ib.]
sītājāniसीताजानिsītā—jāni m. ‘having Sitā as wife’, N. of Rāmacandra, [Śukas.]
sītānadīसीतानदीsītā—nadī f. N. of a river, [HPariś.]
sītāpatiसीतापतिsītā—pati (or °tāyāḥ-pati) m. ‘husband of Sitā’, N. of Rāma, [RāmatUp.]
sītārāmaसीतारामsītā—rāma m. N. of various authors and other persons, [Cat.]
du. Sitā and Rāma, [RTL. 184]
sītāvanaसीतावनsītā—vana See śītavana.
sīta-vana or sītā-vana, v.l. for śītavana.
sītāśrutiसीताश्रुतिsītā—śruti f. news of Sītā, [R.]
sītāgoptṛसीतागोप्तृsītā—goptṛ m. a protector of the furrow, [PārGṛ.]
sītākuṇḍaसीताकुण्डsītā—kuṇḍa N. of a small cavity or hollow in the ground consecrated to Sītā and filled with water, [W.]
sītāloṣṭhaसीतालोष्ठsītā—loṣṭa or sītā—loṣṭha, m. n. a clod taken from a furrow, [Gobh.]
sītāloṣṭaसीतालोष्टsītā—loṣṭa or sītā—loṣṭha, m. n. a clod taken from a furrow, [Gobh.]
sītānandaसीतानन्दsītā—nanda m. N. of wk.
sītāstavaसीतास्तवsītā—stava m. N. of wk.
sītāstutiसीतास्तुतिsītā—stuti f. N. of wk.
sītāyajñaसीतायज्ञsītā—yajña m. a sacrifice offered to the Furrow, [GṛS.]
sītā—yajña mfn. sacrificing to the Furrow, [Hariv.]
sītādravyaसीताद्रव्यsītā—dravya n. an implement of husbandry, [Mn. ix, 293.]
sītāharaṇaसीताहरणsītā—haraṇa n. ‘the carrying off of Sītā’, N. of a ch. of [R.]
sītāstotraसीतास्तोत्रsītā—stotra n. N. of wk.
sītāvivāhaसीताविवाहsītā—vivāha m. N. of wk.
sītākalyāṇaसीताकल्याणsītā—kalyāṇa N. of a Kāvya.
sītāvallabhaसीतावल्लभsītā—vallabha m. ‘beloved by Sitā’, N. of Rāma, [RāmatUp.]
sītārāmasūriसीतारामसूरिsītā—rāma—sūri m. N. of an author, [Cat.]
sītāgaurīvrataसीतागौरीव्रतsītā—gaurī-vrata n. N. of wk.
sītārāmāṣṭakaसीतारामाष्टकsītā—rā°māṣṭaka n. N. of wk.
sītārāmānujīyaसीतारामानुजीयsītā—rā°mānujīya n. N. of wk.
sītārāmacandraसीतारामचन्द्रsītā—rāma—candra m. f. N. of a king, [ib.]
sītārāmastotraसीतारामस्तोत्रsītā—rāma—stotra n. N. of wk.
sītārāmavihāraसीतारामविहारsītā—rāma—vihāra n. N. of wk.
sītāsvayaṃvaraसीतास्वयंवरsītā—svayaṃvara m. N. of wk.
sītārāmaśāstrinसीतारामशास्त्रिन्sītā—rāma—śāstrin m. N. of various authors, [Cat.]
sītārāmapaddhatiसीतारामपद्धतिsītā—rāma—paddhati f. N. of wk.
sītāvijayacampūसीताविजयचम्पूsītā—vijaya-campū f. N. of wk.
sītācaraṇacāmaraसीताचरणचामरsītā—caraṇa-cāmara m. N. of wk.
sītādivyacaritraसीतादिव्यचरित्रsītā—divya-caritra n. N. of wk.
sītārāghavanāṭakaसीताराघवनाटकsītā—rāghava-nāṭaka n. N. of a drama.
sītāsahasranāmanसीतासहस्रनामन्sītā—sahasra-nāman n. N. of wk.
sītātīrthamāhātmyaसीतातीर्थमाहात्म्यsītā—tīrtha-māhātmya n. N. of wk.
sītārāmaparalīkaraसीतारामपरलीकरsītā—rāma—paralīkara m. (?) N. of an author, [Cat.]
sītārāmasaṃkīrtanaसीतारामसंकीर्तनsītā—rāma—saṃkīrtana n. N. of wk.
sītārāmavihārakāvyaसीतारामविहारकाव्यsītā-rāma-vihā°ra-kāvya n. N. of wk.
sītārāmayantroddhāraसीतारामयन्त्रोद्धारsītā—rāma—yantroddhāra m. N. of wk.
sītārāmatattvaprakāśaसीतारामतत्त्वप्रकाशsītā—rāma—tattva-prakāśa m. N. of wk.
sītāsahasranāmastotraसीतासहस्रनामस्तोत्रsītā—sahasra-nāma-stotra n. N. of wk.
sītānavamīvratamāhātmyaसीतानवमीव्रतमाहात्म्यsītā—navamī-vrata-māhātmya n. N. of wk.
sītāṣṭottaraśatanāmāvaliसीताष्टोत्तरशतनामावलिsītā°ṣṭottara-śata-nāmāvali (°tāṣ°), f.
sītārāmāṣṭottaraśatanāmanसीतारामाष्टोत्तरशतनामन्sītā—rā°māṣṭottara-śata-nāman n. N. of wk.