Sita Navami · Sita Navami, Sita Jayanti

Culture of origin: Hindu · Cultural

Holiday sources: Hinduism

Sita Navami, or Sita Jayanti, celebrates the appearance of Sita, wife of Rama: in the Ramayana King Janaka found her as an infant in an earthen pot in a field he was ploughing, and named her after the tip of the plough (sita). Married women fast for their husbands' long life. At Sitamarhi in Bihar, held by regional tradition to be her birthplace, a circumambulation of the city starts and ends at the Urvija Kund.