Janaki Temple janki asthan ward 08 — Attraction in Bihar

Sita is the central female character and one of the central figures in the Hindu epic, Ramayana. She is described as the daughter of the earth goddess, Bhūmi and the adopted daughter of King Janaka of Videha and his wife, Queen Sunaina. She has a younger sister, Urmila, and the female cousins Mandavi and Shrutakirti.8 Sita is known for her dedication, self-sacrifice, courage and purity.

Sita, in her youth, is married off to Lord Rama, the prince of Ayodhya. After marriage, she accompanies her husband, along with her brother-in-law Lakshmana, in his exile. While in exile, the trio settles in the Dandaka forest from where she is abducted by Ravana, the Rakshasa king of Lanka. She is imprisoned in Ashoka Vatika in Lanka until she is rescued by Rama, who slays her captor. After the war, in some versions of the epic, Rama asks Sita to undergo Agni Pariksha (an ordeal of fire) by which she proves her purity before she is accepted by Rama, which for the first time makes his brother Lakshmana get angry at him.

In some versions of the epic, the fire-god Agni creates Maya Sita, who takes Sita's place and is abducted by Ravana and suffers his captivity, while the real Sita hides in the fire. During the Agni Pariksha, Maya Sita and the real Sita exchange places again. While some texts say that Maya Sita is destroyed in the flames of Agni Pariksha, others narrate how she is blessed and reborn as the epic heroine Draupadi or the goddess Padmavati. Some scriptures also mention her previous birth being Vedavati, a woman Ravana tries to molest.[citation needed] After proving her purity, Rama and Sita return to Ayodhya, where they are crowned as king and queen. After a few months, Sita becomes pregnant, to which a washerman makes insensitive comments on Sita to his wife, which Rama in disguise hears. Rama then sends Sita away on exile. Lakshmana is the one who leaves Sita in the forests near sage Valmiki's ashram. Years later, Sita returns to the womb of her mother, the Earth, for release from a cruel world as a testimony of her purity after she reunites her two sons Kusha and Lava with their...

This temple is also known as Janki Sthan. It's stabilised exact at the center of Sitamarhi town. This temple is dedicated to the the Lord Maa Sits and the Lord Rama Laxaman. But you can also see mony Lord/God's statue over here.

If you will talk about the space/area of this temple, this is pretty good according to the other site of that town. In this temple complex, you can easily find many shops which make is easy in shopping. In shop you can get many variety of sweets but, the most famous in sweet is Peda. Also there are shops of toys, beauty shops, general stores in the same shopping complex.

In the temple complex there is park along with garden.

From Janki Sthan, Sitamarhi Railway station is on 2km. distance, and also bus stand and more way transportation like Auto, e-rikshaw and etc...

Finally if you ever come in Sitamarhi, Bihar I would say to visit Janki Sthan.

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Sitamarhi is an Indian city and the district headquarters of the Sitamarhi district in the Mithila region of Bihar and is a part of the Tirhut Division. It dates back to the time of Ramayana and is considered as the place where Janaka found Sita. The Bihar government declared Sitamarhi a municipal council Sitamarhi, believed to be the birth place of Lord Rama's consort Devi Sita, is one such place that has become a frequently visited pilgrimage destination. Located in the Sitamarhi District of Bihar in East India, the town is well-known for an array of temples and...