Author: Bhavabhuti Bhavabhuti

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780483153769

Excerpt from Maha-Vira-Charita the Adventures of the Great Hero Rama, an Indian Drama in Seven Acts Sun. Sita is the wife of Rama, but has no parentage the account given of her is, that when King Janaka, her reputed father, was ploughing the ground, Sita was discovered in the furrow made by the ploughshare; and she is therefore called sprung from the ground, not born from the womb. But the meaning of the word itself, which is not once alluded to, indicates her true character; for Sita really means husbandry, and in this respect corresponds with the Latin Ceres, the patron-goddess of husbandry. Ravana, the king of a country in the South, the capital of which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.