Sita was thus forced into exile a second time she was not only alone this time but also pregnant. Nevertheless, he would not let slander undermine his rule, without an explanation to Sita he asked Lakshman to take her to forest. This statement was reported back to Rama, who knew that the accusation of Sita was baseless.
During Rama’s period of rule, an intemperate washerman, while berating his wife, declared that he was “no pusillanimous Ram who would take his wife back after she had lived in the house of another man”. The couple came back to Ayodhya, where Ram was crowned king. Sita’s purity is unquestionable because the genuine Sita never spent any time in Ravan’s palace.) It is this Sita that was kidnapped, rescued and eventually disappeared into the fire, upon which time the real woman rejoined her husband. (In the fifteenth century Adhyatma Ramyana, Sita that begged for the deer and was kidnapped by Ravan was not the real Sita at all, but a shadow Sita, created by Sita on Ram’s orders to keep her safe.
Sita endured a trial by fire and proved herself untouched by any but Ram. Ram and Lakshman rescued Sita with the help of an army of monkeys, but Ram doubted Sita’s purity having lived with the demon for over a year. During her captivity for a year in Lanka, Ravan expressed his desire for her, however, Sita refused his advances. Ravana took her to his kingdom in Lanka, and Sita was held as a prisoner. because she had to step out of the safety line to give alms to Ravan, disguising himself as a Brahmin, while her husband was away fetching a magnificent golden deer to please her. Sita was abducted by Ravana, King of Lanka. She pleaded with Lakshmana, accused him and finally threatened to kill herself if Lakshmana did not go to Ram’s rescue. Lakshman convinced Sita that Rama cannot be in trouble. When Maricha was dying he called out for help in Ram’s voice. One day in Panchavati forests Sita saw a golden deer and desired that Ram capture or kill the golden deer, the demon Maricha in disguise, for her. Rama, Sita and Lakshmana lived in the forests of Dandaka and Panchavati. Sita willingly gave up the comforts of the palace and accompanied her husband Ram to the forest. When Ram, was about to be crowned, Queen Kaikeyi asked the King Dasharath to fulfill his promise to her and make her son Bharat the king, exile for Ram for fourteen years. Rama married Sita after stringing and breaking Siva’s bow.
Some of the stories also present Sita as being the natural daughter of King Janaka. In other stories, Sita was Ravan’s daughter who was abandoned, put in an urn and buried in a field or set afloat on the ocean. Many versions of the Ramyan hold Sita as being an incarnation of a goddess Lakshmi. In one version of the Ramyana, Sita was the rebirth of a woman named Vedavati daughter of sage Kushadhwaja, who had thrown herself into a fire to escape Ravan’s lust and swore revenge. She was best known by the name Sita, derived from the Sanskrit word sita, which means furrow. Her father Janaka had earned the sobriquet “Videha” due to his ability to transcend body consciousness Sita was therefore also known as Vaidehi. She was called Janaki as the daughter of Janaka Maithili as the princess of Mithila’ as the wife of Ram. For this reason Sita is regarded as a daughter of Bhumi Devi, the goddess of the Earth. Sita was found in a furrow when Janaka was ploughing in a field as a part of a yagna.