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  Sita
As Rama was an incarnation of Vishnu, so Sita was an incarnation of Lakshmi or Sri.
In the Vedas, Sita is "the Furrow", the personified goddess of the female principle of fertility.
Article "Sita" created on 27 August 1997; last modified on 19 November 1997 (Revision 2).
www.pantheon.org /articles/s/sita.html   (56 words)

  
  Sita
'A furrow.' In the Veda, Sita is the furrow, or husbandry personified, and worshipped as a deity presiding over agriculture and fruits.
She is said to have lived before in the Krita age as Vedavati, and to be in reality the goddess Lakshmi in human form, born in the world for bringing about the destruction of Ravana, the Rakshasa king of Lanka, who was invulnerable to ordinary means, but doomed to die on account of a woman.
Sita became the wife of Rama, who won her by bending the great bow of Siva.
www.mythfolklore.net /india/encyclopedia/sita.htm   (638 words)

  
  Sita (singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sita Vermeulen (born June 8, 1980), known primarily by her first name, is a Dutch pop singer.
During the early 2000s, Sita caused quite a sensation in Europe, especially in her homeland, the Netherlands, and in France and Germany.
Sita's career started in 2001 when she entered in the show Starmaker, a sort of Idols, but with the intention to create a band rather than a single artist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sita_(singer)   (238 words)

  
 Karma2Grace Sita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Sita listened patiently as he explained why she could not come with him but in the end firmly told him that he was wrong and her place was with him.
Sita was able to resist Ravana, but no one believed that she did because no woman had resisted him before Sita.
Sita’s death: Sita had twin boys while exiled and Rama sent for her and the boys.
www.karma2grace.org /encyclopedia/Sita.html   (379 words)

  
 MantraOnNet.com: Sita
Sita is defined in the Ramayana and in the subsequent cult of Rama almost entirely in relation to her husband.
Sita's mythological role as the ideal wife and pativrata is illustrated in several incidents in the Ramayana.
Sita's reply does not dwell on the social norm that a wife always be with her husband, as in the Valmiki Ramayana, but on the unbearable agony that separation from her husband will inflict.
www.mantraonnet.com /sita.html   (5236 words)

  
 Corporate profile
SITA is the world's leading service provider of IT business solutions and communication services to the air transport industry.
SITA manages complex communication solutions for its air transport, government and GDS customers over the world’s most extensive communication network, complemented by consultancy in the design, deployment and integration of communication services.
SITA has two main subsidiaries: OnAir, which is leading the race to bring in-flight mobile telephony to the market, and CHAMP Cargosystems, the world's only IT company solely dedicated to air cargo.
www.sita.aero /News_Centre/Corporate_profile/default.htm   (488 words)

  
 Hindu Deities 6
Sita is won in marriage by the young prince Rama after he succeeds in bending a great war bow.
Sita and Rama are the model wife and husband in the Hindu tradition.
Sita is also regarded as an avatar of the goddess Lakshmi, consort of Vishnu.
www.iloveulove.com /spirituality/hindu/hindudeities6.htm   (979 words)

  
 Sita - The Silent Power of Suffering and Sacrifice
All of Sita's miseries in the confinement of Ravana pale in comparison however to the emotional trauma and humiliation she was subjected to by Rama himself.
Lifting Sita in his hands, Agni points out that the beads of perspiration formed on her body due to anger directed at her husband were not dried up by his flames while the flowers she wore in her hair still continued to bloom as freshly as ever.
Sita's self-sacrifice, a reflection of that by Sati in the face of her father's view that Shiva's act of violence had attainted her, too, is only valid because she was the goddess incarnate and her cause of the highest moral ground.
www.exoticindiaart.com /article/sita   (4223 words)

  
 Sita
Sita's interest and talent in singing became evident in 1996 after she became one of the eternal sisters in the "Stars in Your Eyes" night at the Grove.
Sita also tired a local singing audition but was rejected by the organiser, Sita believed that the rejection was due to the organiser's racist attitudes and was ready to give up singing but was persuaded by Sian to ignore the ignorance of others and to strive to succeed
Sita contributed to the protest arranged by Karen's mother concerning the closure of the homeless shelter and will be returning in the 10th Series of Byker Grove.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~rprice/sita.htm   (223 words)

  
 The Sitayana - the Story of Sita
Sita is born directly from the Earth and found by King Janaka, who recognizes her "celestial beauty" and determines her bride price to be her suitor's "manliness." Thus she is wed to Rama, with whom she falls in love at first sight.
Sita insists Rama catch the deer, and while he is thus lured from their hut, Ravana makes his move, capturing Sita and spiriting her away in his flying chariot.
Sita is at this time pregnant with twins, but she is nonetheless left for dead in the woods.
clusterfunction.com /video/ninapaleydotcom/Sitayana/epic.html   (741 words)

  
 The War to Free Sita
Sita, who was pregnant, wandered in the forest until she reached the hermitage of the sage Valmiki (author of the Ramayana), who gave her shelter.
In the case of Sita, a farmer found the box and gave it to King Janaka, thus Sita was known as the daughter of Janaka.
Nevertheless, Sita's purity was forever tainted by Ravana's touch, and in a similar way, ISKCON's illicit, incestuous arranged marriages created many Sitas who may suffer to the ends of their lives for the sins of their fathers.
surrealist.org /gurukula/storymatters/sita.html   (1752 words)

  
 Summary of Application of Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
SITA was incorporated in Belgium in 1949 as a co-operative association and is owned and operated by and on behalf of the Air Transport Community ("ATC").
SITA, Inc. was created from SITA SC, a cooperative alliance formed by the ATC, and purports to own one of the largest data and voice telecommunication networks in the world.
SITA is a cooperative non-profit organization fully owned by its members whose primary objective is “[t]o foster all telecommunications and information processing…required in the operation of the air transport industry… with the aim of promoting in all countries safe and regular air transport.” SITA has implemented the largest communcation network in the world.
www.icann.org /tlds/report/air1.html   (1240 words)

  
 YouTube - sita
Sita na achtste liveshow Sterren Dansen op het IJs!
Sita @ Sterren Dansen op het IJS (tweede liveshow)
Sita @ Sterren Dansen op het IJS (eerste liveshow)
www.youtube.com /?v=KqBsADWaDtw   (202 words)

  
 About SITA
SITA's solutions are provided across the world's largest, most advanced integrated voice and data network, today offering leadership in IP (Internet Protocol) services.
SITA supports an industry that by the year 2006 expects to service over two billion air travelers per year.
SITA is focusing on value-added solutions provision, offering IP leadership and e-business enablement for the air transport industry.
www.worldtracer.aero /aboutSITA.html   (604 words)

  
 Sita Kalyanam
Many people also consider Sita to be the wedded wife of Sri Rama, who himself was a king of great renown during his time and to whom the epic of Rama is dedicated.
Since Sita Kalyanam is dedicated to the Cosmic Mother, as an outcome of Sita Kalyanam, gifts, presents, will be given to each home, each family, each person in their own village, at their doorstep.
Sita Kalyanam is also the culmination of Paramahamsaji's year long sadhana which he began on 14th January 1997 and which will finish during the next full moon of Kartik Poornima.
www.yogamag.net /archives/1998/2mar98/sitakal.shtml   (608 words)

  
 Kate Millett / Sita
First published in 1977, Sita is an unsparing, moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites.
A wrenching and intimate autobiography, Sita follows the disintegration of Millett's love affair with a woman who is ten years her senior, a veteran of several marriages, and the mother of grown children.
Amid this unexpected chaos, she struggles with searing jealousy and self-doubt to salvage her relationship with Sita, who is often preoccupied, impatient, and cold, and who frequently disappears for assignations with male lovers.
www.press.uillinois.edu /s00/milletts.html   (317 words)

  
 Welcome to SITA Foreign Exchange Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
SITA roots actually go back to the USA where John C Dengler and Helen Dengler created a small company called Students International Travel Association.
SITA ranks amongst the foremost destination management companies in the Country.
Continuing its expansion as in the past, SITA aims to have an Office in every Indian State Capital in the years to come.
www.newdelhi.net /sitaforex   (1051 words)

  
 Sita, Hindu Deity and incarnation of Lakshmi
When Rama rescued Sita and she was brought back to the Kingdom many people didn't believe that she upheld her chastity and even Rama had some doubt.
Though Sita didn't do anything wrong what happened to her was still affecting the city and so she had to be banished.
Sita was very upset about this but she went along with it anyway because it was what Rama wanted.
www.msu.edu /~mahereri/rel340/sita.html   (545 words)

  
 Airport Technology - SITA - Airport Infrastructure, Operations, Baggage and Passenger Solutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
SITA, the first choice partner to airports and the aviation industry, has developed an extensive range of value-added solutions to improve the passenger's journey, streamline and integrate airline and airport operations, track baggage and cargo.
SITA offer a variety of shared-use check-in and departure control applications for the commercial and operational benefit of airlines, airports and ground handling companies.
SITA's Integrated Baggage Solution consists of three systems, which cover comprehensive baggage tracking, messaging and tracing as items move from check-in counters, to containers, out to aircraft and on to their final destination.
www.airport-technology.com /contractors/consult/sita   (926 words)

  
 School Recycling Through SITA Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Landcare and SITA are in a 3 year alliance to promote environmental improvement and carry out on-ground rehabilitation projects.
SITA has introduced a number of Cause Marketing initiatives whereby for each new recycling or waste collection service won by SITA a donation is made to Landcare for environmental projects.
SITA will promote both its Landcare Partnership and its waste management and recycling services to schools in each State.
www.sita.com.au /index.aspx?link_id=67.399   (656 words)

  
 Business Wire: Strong Results by Reinvigorated SITA Indicate B... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
SITA SC is transforming itself into to a communication services integrator, making dramatic progress in enhancing the value we provide to the air transport industry that created us and whom we serve with dedication."
About SITA SC SITA SC, a not-for-profit cooperative, is the world's leading provider of network and communications solutions to the air transport industry and to international organizations.
SITA INC (Information Networking Computing) is the world's leading provider of air transport focused applications, communications and IT infrastructure, enabling its customers to realize greater operational efficiencies and enhanced profitability.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:130719715&refid=holomed_1   (1138 words)

  
 SITA
The target for an ATS provider is for their Datalink applications and the network under which they operate to comply with ICAO ATN SARPs.
SITA is committed to many industry initiatives to support ATN development.
SITA is committed to providing the AIRCOM customer airlines with the ATN services they will need to access the CPDLC service.
www.atnconference.com /atn2002/partners/sita.htm   (182 words)

  
 Sita Sings the Blues FAQ
Common interpretations resemble rationalizations and apologies: Rama "had to" abuse Sita to maintain the traditional order of his kingdom, in which the opinion of the lowliest man ranked higher than the life of any woman.
My interpretation of Sita's "trial by fire" is that her purity of feeling spares her death.
Sita also has serious chutzpah to end her life in front of Rama, her sons, and thousands of onlookers.
clusterfunction.com /video/ninapaleydotcom/Sitayana/FAQ.html   (1271 words)

  
 SITA Pest Control-Corp Profile
Sita Pest Control was founded in1988 as a subsidiary of, Sita Holdings, a global French waste management conglomerate.
Sita Pest Control is well established in Singapore as one of the leading pest management companies.
Sita is a certified OJT Centre by the Institute of Technical Education since Year 2001.
www.sitapest.com /base/about/profile.htm   (364 words)

  
 Mother Sita Devi
Srimati Sita Devi is the daughter of the Earth goddess, Bhumi Devi, and central figure of the Ramayana.
Looking at Sita's joy and celebration, Rama felt it painful to inform her that he would not be crowned and that he would be leaving for the jungle.
Sita, entrusting her children to Valmiki, ascended the throne supported by 'nagas' adorned with fiery eyes and jewels on their heads.
www.salagram.net /parishad131.html   (4914 words)

  
 SITA
SITA is the world's leading provider of global information and telecommunications solutions to the air transport industry.
SITA's AIRCOM service is continually upgraded to ensure compliance with performance requirements defined by the RTCA and EUROCAE.
The target for an ATS provider is for their data link applications and the network under which they operate to comply with ICAO ATN SARPs.
www.atnconference.com /atn2003/partners/sita.htm   (182 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Sita: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
"A wrenching and intimate autobiography, "Sita" is an unsparing, moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites.
For the first time, the original text of "Sita" is accompanied by the first of Millett's moving prose elegies, written after Sita committed suicide.
"Sita" follows the disintegration of Millett's love affair with a woman who is ten years her senior, a veteran of several marriages, and the mother of grown children.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0252068874   (597 words)

  
 Negotiating a Marriage
The second excuse that is given for not copying Sita is that Sita's marriage wasn't a successful one, therefore we stopped letting girls choose their own husbands.
So whether Sita was really on the earth or not, I think we should believe that she was.
Sita was actually from Janakpur, she wasn't from Darbhanga.
www.csuchico.edu /anth/mithila/sita.htm   (1115 words)

  
 sita
The certification of the ET6000 and EC2000 by SITA is a result of successful product performance during field tests and integration into the SITA CUTE and Liaison systems.
SITA solutions are designed to help airports maximize security, combat congestion, improve operating efficiencies and reduce costs.
SITA currently manages some 30,000 CUTE workstations for 285 customers in more than 200 airport locations worldwide, checking-in an estimated 580 million passengers a year.
www.unimark.com /about/News.html/about/news/sita   (394 words)

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