2023, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Part B

Tapasvinī, the Mahākāvya that depicts the Sīta-Rāma tale through Sīta in the backdrop of Oriya culture. Sīta with her dignity and loyalty addresses the ethical dilemmas in the Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa. Sīta narrates the happenings in her life for the hermit girls, where she unfolds the epic. The reader experiences her prominence in its subtlety and in that sense it is Sītayana, the penance of Sīta