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Sita
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2013}}
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{{More citations needed|date=January 2012}}
{{Infobox deity
| type = Hindu
| image = File:Sitas Exile by Raja Ravi Varma (1848 - 1906).jpg
| caption = Sita in exile by [[Raja Ravi Varma]].
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If we consider the story of Sita's banishment in the Uttara-Khanda of the Valmiki Ramayana to be true,then there is a reason behind it. 

In the fifty-seventh chapter of the “Patala Kanda” of the Padma Purana, a young and unmarried Sita is found to be cursed by two divine male and female parrots which were from Maharshi Valmiki's ashram . They cursed her to be banished by her future husband during her first pregnancy.
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And the story as follows:

"3-11 That pair, enjoying (each other's company), quickly flew in the sky, settled on the lap of a mountain, and spoke (to each other): and spoke (to each other): "On the earth, charming Rama will be the king. His wife will be (a woman) by name Sita. The intelligent, powerful king, vanquishing (his enemies), will rule (over eleven thousand years. Blessed is that queen Janaki, and blessed the earth) along with her for is he, named Rama, who having approached each other, will gladly enjoy.

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