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Si⋅ta

  [see-tah]
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–noun
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
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Si·ta   (sē'tə, -tä)   
n.   Hinduism
The wife of Rama, regarded as an ideal of womanhood.

[Sanskrit Sītā, from sītā, furrow (because she was believed to have sprung from a furrow ploughed by her father).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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