Ramayana Part B: Sita Sings the Blues

-Sita tells Rama she is pregnant, and he proposes to her that they should partake on an adventure.
-Rama tells his brother that he must take Sita to the forest and abondon her there because he can not have her in his kingdom.
- Rama had doubts about her inpurity.
- She is driven on a chariot to to the forest and left there.
-She meets a teacher there Valmiki.
- Her two sons were born in the forest, and they were taught by Valmiki
- Rama finds his two sons in the forest and he invites them back to Ayodhya Palace to rule by them
-His conditon for Sita returning with them is that she must prove her purity again, to come back with Luv and Kush.
-She tries to prove her innocence by offering herself to mother nature if she isnt completly pure.
- She dissapears into the earth
Sita with her two sons

Source: Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues, 2008

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