What Valmiki Actually Wrote
The fire is lit in the Yuddha Kanda. The war is over. Ravana is dead. Rama has won. And then, in front of his army, his allies, the vanaras, and the rakshasas who watched the whole siege, he turns to Sita and says he cannot take her back. Not because he stopped loving her. Because she lived in another man's house.
