Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

[सि-त पृषोdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied दीर्घः]

1. A furrow, track or line of a ploughshare.
2. (Hence) A tilled or furrowed ground, ploughed land; वृषेव सीतां तदवग्रहक्षताम् Ku.5.61.
3. Husbandry, agriculture; as in सीताद्रव्य quod vide, which see
4. Name of the daughter of Janaka, king of Mithilā, and wife of Rāma.; जनकानां कुले कीर्तिमाहरिष्यति मे सुता । सीता भर्तार- मासाद्य रामं दशरथात्मजम् ॥ Rām.1.67.22. [She was so called because she was supposed to have sprung from a furrow made by king Janaka while ploughing the ground to prepare it for a sacrifice which he had instituted to obtain progeny, and hence also her epithets, 'Ayonijā', 'Dharāputrī' etc. She was married to Rāma and accompanied him to the forest. While there she was once carried off by Rāvaṇa who tried to violate her chastity, but she scornfully rejected his suit. When Rāma came to know that she was in Lankā, he attacked ther place, killed Rāvaṇa and his host of demons, and recovered Sītā. She had, however, to pass through the terrible ordeal of fire before she could be received by her husband as his wife. Though thus convinced of her chastity, he had afterwards to abandon her, when far advanced in pregnancy, because the people continued to suspect her fidelity. She however, found a protector in the sage Vālmīki, at whose hermitage she was delivered of Kuśa and Lava, and who brought them up. She was ultimately restored to Rāma by the sage.]
5. Name of a goddess, wife of Indra.
6. Name of Umā
7. N of Lakṣmī.
8. Name of one of the four fabulous branches (the eastern branch) of the Ganges.
9. Spirituous liquor.

1. feminine (less correctly written शीता; confer, compare सीम्/अन्, सीर) a furrow, the track or line of a ploughshare (also personified, and apparently once worshipped as a kind of goddess resembling Pomona; in fg-veda iv, 57, 6, Sita1 सिता is invoked as presiding over agriculture or the fruits of the earth; in VS. xii, 69-72, Sita1 सिता "the Furrow" is again personified and addressed, four furrows being required to be drawn at the ceremony when the a reference to some preceeding word (not necessarily in the same page) stanzas are recited; in TBr. she is called सावित्री, and in Pa1rGr2. इन्द्र-पत्नी, "the wife of Indra इन्द्र"; in epic poetry S Sita1 सिता is the wife of Ra1macandra रामचन्द्र and daughter of Janaka जनक, king of Mithila1 मिथिला, capital of Videha विदेह, who was otherwise called Si1radhvaja सीरध्वज; she was named Sita1 सिता because fabled to have sprung from a furrow made by Janaka जनक while ploughing the ground to prepare it for a sacrifice instituted by him to obtain progeny, whence her epithet Ayoni-ja1 अयोनि-जा, "not womb-born"; her other common names, Maithili1 मैथिली and Vaidehi1 वैदेही, are from the place of her birth; according to one legend she was Vedavati1 वेदवती quod vide, in the Kr2ita कृत age; according to to according to others she was an incarnation of Lakshmi लक्ष्मि and of Uma1 उमा; the story of Ra1ma राम 's bending the bow, which was to be the condition of the gift of Sita1 सिता, is told in R. i, 67; Si1ta1 सीता 's younger sister Urmila1 उर्मिला was at the same time given to Lakshman2a लक्ष्मण, and two nieces of Janaka जनक, daughters of his brother king Kus3a-dhvaja कुश-ध्वज, to Bharata भरत and S3atrughna शत्रुघ्न) fg-veda etc. IW. 335 neuter gender 1; 337 etc.
2. feminine Name of a form of Da1ksha1yan2i1 दाक्षायणी catalogue or catalogues
3. feminine of a poetess catalogue or catalogues
4. feminine of a river MBh. R. etc.
5. feminine of the eastern branch of the four mythical branches of the heavenly Ganges (into which it is supposed to divide after falling on mount Meru मेरु; this branch is fabled to flow into the Varsha वर्ष or Dvi1pa द्वीप called Bhadra7s3va भद्राश्व) Lexicographers
6. feminine of an Upanishad उपनिषद् catalogue or catalogues
7. feminine spirituous liquor W.