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class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;background-color: #FFC569;">Shanta</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Rsyasrnga_travels_to_Ayodhya_with_Santa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Rsyasrnga_travels_to_Ayodhya_with_Santa.jpg/220px-Rsyasrnga_travels_to_Ayodhya_with_Santa.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="396" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Rsyasrnga_travels_to_Ayodhya_with_Santa.jpg/330px-Rsyasrnga_travels_to_Ayodhya_with_Santa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Rsyasrnga_travels_to_Ayodhya_with_Santa.jpg/440px-Rsyasrnga_travels_to_Ayodhya_with_Santa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="1081" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Rishyasringa travels to Ayodhya with Shanta</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FFC569;">Genealogy</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/King_Romapada" class="mw-redirect" title="King Romapada">Romapada</a> (adoptive father)<br /><a href="/wiki/Vershini" title="Vershini">Vershini</a> (adoptive mother)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Siblings</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rama" title="Rama">Rama</a><br />Chaturanga (adoptive brother)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rishyasringa" title="Rishyasringa">Rishyasringa</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shanta</b> (<a href="/wiki/Sanskrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a>: <span lang="sa">शांता</span>), is the princess of <a href="/wiki/Anga" title="Anga">Anga</a> in the Hindu epic <i><a href="/wiki/Ramayana" title="Ramayana">Ramayana</a></i>. She is the wife of <a href="/wiki/Rishyasringa" title="Rishyasringa">Rishyasringa</a>. In northern recensions of the epic and later Indian literature, she is regarded as a daughter of King <a href="/wiki/Dasharatha" title="Dasharatha">Dasharatha </a> and Queen <a href="/wiki/Kausalya" title="Kausalya">Kausalya</a>, who was later adopted by King <a href="/wiki/Romapada" title="Romapada">Romapada</a> and Queen <a href="/wiki/Vershini" title="Vershini">Vershini</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legend">Legend</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shanta&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Legend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shanta was educated in the <a href="/wiki/Vedas" title="Vedas">Vedas</a>, arts, craft as well as in warfare, and was considered to have been very beautiful. One day, while her father, the king Romapada, was busy in conversation with Shanta, a <a href="/wiki/Brahmin" title="Brahmin">brahmin</a> came to ask for help in cultivation in the days of the monsoon. Romapada did not pay attention to the brahmin's plight. This irritated and enraged the brahmin, who left the kingdom. <a href="/wiki/Indra" title="Indra">Indra</a>, the god of rain, was unable to bear the insult to his devotee, so there was little rainfall during the monsoon season resulting in drought in the kingdom. Meanwhile, Dasharatha wanted a son to continue his legacy and enrich his royal dynasty. It was advised that the troubles of both kingdoms could only be alleviated by <a href="/wiki/Yajna" title="Yajna">yajnas</a> performed by a brahmin with powers that come from the observance of perfect chastity and that the only such person was Rishyasringa.<sup id="cite_ref-.B._Kanuga_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-.B._Kanuga-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rishyasringa had been raised by <a href="/wiki/Vibhandak_Rishi" class="mw-redirect" title="Vibhandak Rishi">Vibhandaka</a>, isolated from society without knowledge of women. He had to be brought to the city and be persuaded to carry out the necessary yajna ceremonies. Despite their fear of the power and anger of Vibhandaka, both kings send young women to introduce the boy to the normal society, then Shanta fulfills this task and Rishyasringa marries Shanta, he then agrees to perform yajna for <a href="/wiki/Anga" title="Anga">Anga</a>, during the recitation of it, it rained heavily, the public rejoiced and there were festivals in Anga.<sup id="cite_ref-.B._Kanuga_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-.B._Kanuga-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rishyasringa also performed a Putra Kameshthi <a href="/wiki/Yajna" title="Yajna">yajna</a> for Dasharatha to beget progeny, and as the consequence of the said <a href="/wiki/Yajna" title="Yajna">yajna</a> <a href="/wiki/Rama" title="Rama">Rama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bharata_(Ramayana)" title="Bharata (Ramayana)">Bharata</a>, and the twins <a href="/wiki/Lakshmana" title="Lakshmana">Lakshmana</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shatrughna" title="Shatrughna">Shatrughna</a> were born.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Worship">Worship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shanta&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Worship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Kullu" title="Kullu">Kullu</a> district of <a href="/wiki/Himachal_Pradesh" title="Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Sringeri" title="Sringeri">Sringeri</a> town of <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a>, there are temples dedicated to Shanta and her husband Rishyasringa.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shanta&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Zalak_Desai" title="Zalak Desai">Zalak Desai</a> portrayed Shanta in the 2015 series <i><a href="/wiki/Siya_Ke_Ram" title="Siya Ke Ram">Siya Ke Ram</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Parvathy_Jayaram" title="Parvathy Jayaram">Parvathy Jayaram</a> played Shanta in the critically acclaimed Malayalam movie <i><a href="/wiki/Vaisali_(film)" title="Vaisali (film)">Vaishali</a>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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