Chitrakut

City in the Banda district of Uttar
Pradesh, about sixty miles south and
west of the city of Allahabad. In the
Ramayana, the earlier of the two great
Hindu epics, Chitrakut is the place in
which Rama, the epic’s hero, his wife
Sita, and his brother Lakshmana live
during the early part of their exile. It
is here as well that Rama instructs
another brother, Bharata, to rule as
regent until the fourteen years of Rama’s
exile have ended.