Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.203
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.203
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Śrī Rāma then, with the consent of all and in accordance with his own desire, took Sītā and returned with her to Ayodhyā. Lakṣmaṇa and others followed him. Kausalya and others received Sītā most heartily. Śrī Rāma, who till then was having no wife, had made a golden image of Sītā for the purposes of the aśvamedha. Now, since the real Sītā was with him the idol was an unnecessary thing. The Aśvamedhayajña went off very well.