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Urmila is one of the major characters in the Hindu epic Ramayana. She was the daughter of King Janaka of Mithila and Queen Sunayana and the younger sister of Sita. She was the wife of Lakshmana, the younger brother of Rama. They had two sons - Angada and Chandraketu. When Lakshman went to exile along with Ram and Sita, Urmila was ready to accompany him but he hesitated and asked her to stay back in Ayodhya to take care of his aging parents.
In Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, there is a temple dedicated to Lakshman and Urmila. The temple was built in 1870 AD by the then ruler Balwant Singh of Bharatpur and is considered as a "royal temple" by the royal family of the princely state of Bharatpur.
Urmila is a major character in the Sanskrit epic poem Ramayana.
Urmila may also refer to:
- Urmila Aryal, Nepalese politician
- Urmila Bhatt (1934-1997), Indian actress
- Urmila Bhoola, South African human rights lawyer
- Urmila Devi Dasi (1955), an American educator
- Urmila Kanitkar (21st century), Indian film actress in Marathi cinema
- Urmila Mahanta (21st century), Indian actress
- Urmila Matondkar (born 1974), an Indian film actress
- Urmila Satyanarayana, Indian classical dancer of bharatanatyam
- Urmila Tiwari (21st century), Indian stage and television actress
- Urmila Unni, Indian actress, appearing in Malayalam films
- Urmila (leafhopper), a leafhopper genus in the tribe Erythroneurini