Jai Sri Ram.
Anasuya Gifts flowers and ornaments to Seetha.
Love towards God is not diminished or conditioned by the punishments or gifts of life by Him, as they are the results of our own folly and favors to fellow beings while God ensures their fruits with out disparity. So much so devotion to husband by wife or the other to his counter part should stem out of bandage and not by virtues on either side. Seetha agreeing to the advise by Anusuya on the duties of a devoted wife cites the example of SAvitri and RohiNi as to how faithful and inseparable She is to Rama.
Pleased with that Anasuya offers gifts of flowers, fragrant oil and ornaments collected from forest yields to Seetha with a request to adorn them for ever.
Seetha is worth much more valuable than these as a pampered child of Vidheha and privileged queen of Ayodhya. But the sheer love of Anusuya make the gifts very special to Her, not wanting in any way.
Anasuya desiring to hear the self-narration of Seetha's Svayamvara
makes a request to Her and Seetha too seizing the opportunity gives a fair account from the start of Her birth when King Janaka ploughed the land and how he plunged in the ocean of anxiety, immediately on attaining marriageable age by Her.
The svayamvara is all about lifting and stringing of a bow given by rain-God VaruNa, resembling the weight of a mountain.Being unable to lift, all the Princes went away offering salutation to it. After a long time Rama with true valor,brought by Sage Visvamitra, arrived at Mithila to witness the Yagjna conducted by King Janaka. As per the words of the Sage, Janaka caused the bow to be brought for Rama to string the same. But the bow halved into two. There after, with due consent of King Dasararha, Seetha was given to Rama and UrmiLa, her sister to LakshmaNa.
Charmed by the story telling by Seetha, Anasuya hugged and kissed Her fore arms. As night was approaching Seetha returned to Rama with all the ornaments and flowers adorning Her, resembling Goddess Lakshmi.
Following day both Rama with His consort and LakshmaNa finishing the morning oblations set on their journey deep into the forest, as the sun masked by clouds.
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