the birth place of Goddess Sita. He broke the ‘dhanush’ (bow) of Lord Shiva in the Swayamvara and was married to Princess Sita. In order to immortalize this divine wedding ceremony, devotees have then ...

the Devi Mahatmya (glorification of the goddess), equates her with the sole ultimate reality, superseding the male gods. A millennium later, in Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas, Sita hails Girija ...