Described to possess red hair and wear blue robes, she is stated to laugh boisterously, chasing the murderers of Brahmins.
[7] In the same epic, to expiate Rama's sin of brahmahatya for the killing of Ravana, Sita creates a lingam out of sand for the worship of Shiva, which was installed at the temple of Rameswaram.
Having decapitated one of Brahma's heads, Shiva incurs the sin of brahmahatya, with the skull of the deity stuck to his palm.
For the atonement of this sin, the deity assumed the guise of a mendicant and wandered across the land until he reached Kashi, where he achieved redemption.
[9][10] Some texts state that bathing at the water bodies of a tirtha, a Hindu site of pilgrimage, cleanses one of the sin of brahmahatya.