Sita Samahit Sthal, Hindu temple in Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sita Samahit Sthal is a Hindu temple in Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, India, standing along the banks of the Ganges River. The compound rises through several floors and presents different representations of the goddess, along with a large Hanuman figure that reaches over a hundred feet in height.
The site marks where Sita, living in the hermitage of the sage Valmiki in the Sitamarhi forest, willed herself into the earth. According to the Ramayana, this followed the Ashvamedha horse sacrifice of Rama: his sons Luv and Kush seized the horse at what is now Baripur village in Bhadohi, defeated his warriors including Hanuman, and Rama came to fight them before Sita ended her earthly life. The temple is dedicated to her.
The temple is dedicated to Sita, and tradition holds that she entered the earth here after asking her mother, the earth, to take her back. The site is linked to Valmiki, who wrote the Ramayana, and to the battle in which her sons Luv and Kush defeated Rama's warriors. A 108-foot Hanuman statue stands at the site.
Sita Samahit Sthal lies in Bhadohi district, Uttar Pradesh, between Prayagraj and Varanasi near National Highway 2. The nearest railway station is Jangiganj, about 11 km away; the site sits along the Ganges. The temple is dedicated to Sita, and a 108-foot Hanuman statue stands here.
The temple's rise as a visitor site is credited to Swami Jitendranand and to Shri Prakash Narayan Punja, whose help is named in the Hindi account of the place. The same account records a Hanuman statue 108 feet tall, presented there as the largest of its kind in the world.
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