

So he created a boy child from nearby Kush (a grass employed for making mats and roofs of kutiya’s in ancient India) and gave life to it. Muni was worried what he would say when Sita returned and asked for her child.

Muni wasn’t aware of the fact that Sita herself had taken Luv with her. After going some steps she realized that muni was continually absorbed in writing, so she took Luv with herself.Īfter some time when muni looked for the child who was supposed to be somewhere around, he could not find Luv. Once, Sita was going for a bath to the nearby river (tamsa), she requested muni Valmiki to take care of her son Luv, and muni nodded his head in agreement while he was busy writing. There is also a different tale that Sita delivered one son Luv. Sita delivered twin sons named Luv and Kush. Rama yielded to public opinion and thus Sita was forced to go to the forest for a second time, even as she was pregnant where rishi Valmiki provided shelter in his ashram, located in a forest on the banks of the River Tamsa. This statement was reported to Rama, who understood that the accusation on Sita was baseless. During Ram’s period of rule, an intemperate washerman, while berating his wayward wife, declared that “he is not Rama who would take his wife back after she had lived at the home of another man”.
