IIT Kanpur English Commentary

Modern synthesis of traditional Sanskrit commentaries (Desiraju Hanumanta Rao & K.M.K. Murthy)

Covers Sita's fire-entry after Rama speaks harshly to her in public. The commentary is explicit that the harshness reflects the suspicion of onlookers weighing on Rama, not doubt of his own -- and that Sita's ability to walk into the fire unharmed is itself the proof the tradition points to: it was Lakshmana who lit the fire, and Agni himself testifies to her purity before Rama accepts her back. The commentary also flags an alternate textual reading in which Rama's relief and the gods' worship of him are read as a single continuous action rather than two separate events -- noting that Madhava Yogi specifically takes them as two.