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.