The author goes beyond what Vishwaamitra noticed, 'Rama appeared to undertake an impossible task....Sita must have prayed earnestly that he might succeed in bending the bow. For, when Rama had noticed her for the first time, her eyes also lighted on him, and she had decided in her heart that he alone should be her lord.
Rama was introduced to Janaka who ordered the bow be brought before the prince. Rama picks up the bow with ease and breaks it as he tries to string it.
Raghu, I rechecked and Janaka did say अयोनिजाम् - Not born out of a womb. I guess Janaka imagined, abandoned infants being a rarity those times, that it was a gift from above. Of course there are innumerable stories on Sita.
I had read about Sita being Ravana's daughter, Thai Ramayana also says so.
Reincarnation of Manivati: According to Gunabhadra's Uttara Purana of the ninth century BCE, Ravana disturbs asceticism of Manivati, daughter of Amitavega of Alkapuri, and she pledges to take revenge on Ravana. Manivati is later reborn as the daughter of Ravana and Mandodari. But, astrologers predict ruin of Ravana because of this child. So, Ravana orders to kill the child. Manivati is placed in a casket and buried in the ground of Mithila where she is discovered by some of the farmers of the kingdom. Then Janka, king of that state adopts her.
Ravana's daughter: In Sanghadasa's Jaina version of Ramayana of the 5th century BCE, Sita, entitled Vasudevahindi, is born as daughter of Ravana. According to this version, astrologers predict that first child of Vidyadhara Maya (Ravana's wife) will destroy his lineage. That's why Ravana abandons her and orders the infant to be buried in a distant land where she is later discovered and adopted by Janaka.
But this one is new to me!
Ramayana Manjari: In Ramayana Manjari (verses 344–366), North-western and Bengal recensions of Valmiki Ramayana, it has been described as on hearing a voice from the sky and then seeing Menaka, Janaka expresses his wish to obtain a child. And when he finds the child, he hears the same voice again telling him the infant is his spiritual child, born of Menaka.
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