संस्‍कृतशब्‍दकोशः

सीता

wife of lord rama

शब्‍दभेदः : Noun

शब्‍दकोश : हिन्‍दी आंग्‍ल कोश

सीता

वर्णवृत्तविशेषः।; "सीतायाः प्रत्येकस्मिन् चरणे रगणः तगणः मगणः यगणः रगणश्च भवति।"

शब्‍दभेदः : noun

शब्‍दकोश : संस्‍कृतहिन्‍दी शब्‍दकोश

सीता

sītā

{sītā} f. (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, Sitā is invoked as presiding over agriculture or the fruits of the earth##in VS. xii, 69-72, Sitā, 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 Sitā is the wife of Rāmacandra and daughter of Janaka, king of Mithilā, capital of Videha, who was otherwise called Sīradhvaja##she was named Sitā 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 Kṛita age##accord. to others she was an incarnation of Lakshmi and of Umā##the story of Rāma's bending the bow, which was to be the condition of the gift of Sitā, is told in R. i, 67##Sītā's younger sister Urmilā was at the same time given to Lakshmaṇa, and two nieces of Janaka, daughters of his brother king Kusa-dhvaja, to Bharata and Śatrughna) RV. &c. &c. IW. 335, n. 1 ; 337 &c##N. of a form of Dākshāyaṇī 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 Varsha or Dviipa called Bhadrâva) L##of an Upanishad Cat##spirituous liquor W

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