She definitely got the short end of the stick.
I can understand the trial by fire after she and Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya. After all, it was an act that Rama, Sita and Agni were in on, just to punk his subjects.
But I think the second banishment was extremely unfair, considering it was an ill-tempered person slandering the king and queen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita#Later_life
I can understand the trial by fire after she and Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya. After all, it was an act that Rama, Sita and Agni were in on, just to punk his subjects.
But I think the second banishment was extremely unfair, considering it was an ill-tempered person slandering the king and queen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita#Later_life
Sita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later life
The couple came back to Ayodhya, where Rama was crowned king with Sita by his side. While Rama's trust and affection for Sita never wavered, it soon became evident that some people in Ayodhya could not accept Sita's long captivity under the power of Ravana.
During Rama's period of rule, an intemperate washer man, while berating his wayward wife, declared that he was "no pusillanimous Rama who would take his wife back after she had lived in the house of another man". This statement was reported back to Rama, who knew that the accusation of Sita was baseless. Nevertheless, he would not let slander undermine his rule, so he drove Sita out.
Sita was thus forced into exile a second time; she was not only alone this time but also pregnant. She was rescued by the sage Valmiki. He gave her refuge in his hermitage, where she delivered twin sons named Kusha and Lava.
In the hermitage, Sita raised her sons alone, as a single mother.[5] They grew up to be valiant and intelligent, and were eventually united with their father. Once she had witnessed the acceptance of her children by Rama, Sita sought final refuge in the arms of her mother Bhūmi. Hearing her plea for release from an unjust world and from a life that had rarely been happy, the earth dramatically split open; Bhūmi appeared and took Sita away to a better world.