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Draupadi Publicly Humiliated; Sita Kidnapped: The Suffering of Women in Hindu Epics

What the Great Epics Say About the Honour of WomenAt the centre of Hinduism's two greatest epics — the Ramayana and the Mahabharata — stands not a battlefield, not a throne, and not a god, but a woman in pain. Devi Sita was abducted by the demon king Ravana while living in exile with her husband Rama.

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What the Great Epics Say About the Honour of WomenAt the centre of Hinduism's two greatest epics — the Ramayana and the Mahabharata — stands not a battlefield, not a throne, and not a god, but a woman in pain.

Devi Sita was abducted by the demon king Ravana while living in exile with her husband Rama.

Abducted, Humiliated, Abandoned: What the Great Epics Say About the Honour of WomenAt the centre of Hinduism's two greatest epics — the Ramayana and the Mahabharata — stands not a battlefield, not a throne,...

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What the Great Epics Say About the Honour of WomenAt the centre of Hinduism's two greatest epics — the Ramayana and the Mahabharata — stands not a battlefield, not a throne, and not a god, but a woman in pain. Devi Sita was abducted by the demon king Ravana while living in exile with her husband Rama.

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