Rama's wife, held as an avatar of Lakshmi, and the Ramayana's central figure of steadfastness through exile, abduction, and a trial the epic never lets her escape entirely.
रामायण · Ramayana
Sita is described as found not born of a human mother but discovered in a furrow of earth by King Janaka of Mithila, giving her the name Janaki. She chooses exile alongside Rama rather than remain in comfort, is abducted by Ravana and held in Lanka's Ashoka Vatika grove, and after her rescue undergoes an agni pariksha, a trial by fire, to prove her purity — an episode long discussed within the tradition itself for what it asks of her.
Her final departure into the earth that first gave her, after Rama, under public doubt, asks her to prove her fidelity a second time, is read by many within the tradition as the epic's own quiet questioning of the standard it places on her — a tension the Ramayana leaves open rather than resolving.