I'll never think of her the same way now? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <he...@hotmail.com> wrote :
As long as I can remember, have thought that Raama's wife's name "Sita" means white. Well, that's what sita actually means but only yesterday realized that her name IRL was siitaa* which means furrow! sita a. white, bright, clear, pure. sItA** (see-taah? - carde) f. furrow; N. of the daughter of Janaka and wife of Ra1ma (said to have sprung from a furrow). * Linguists favor the form si:ta: ? ** In Harvard-Kyoto -transliteration, long (diirgha) vowels are indicated by upper case!
