This is biggest misconceptions about sanatan dharma when some leftist said Bhagwan ram ji was married at age of 13-14 and maa sita was at the age of 6 ?

In Bāla-Kāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam, Ram ji accompanies Viśvāmitra,to kill Tataka, Subahu etc. After killing them, He

He proceeded to Mithila and marries Sita. What was Ram’s age when he married Sita? This is what Daśaratha told Viśvāmitra when the latter asked him to send Ram to kill the Rakshasas.
ऊनषोडषवर्षो मे रामो राजीवलोचनः । न युद्धयोग्यतामस्य पश्यामि सह राक्षसैः ।।1.20.2।।
This verse is used to ‘prove’ that Ram was 15 years old when he married Sita. In Vedic calculations, a boy’s age is calculated from the time of Upanayana, because this ceremony is considered a ‘second birth’. This is why the word ‘Dwija’ (twice born) is used. Upanayana was
performed for Kshatriyas at the age of eight. Thus, what Dasharatha actually meant is “Ram has only received 15 years of training!”. (In ancient India warriors needed 16 years of training). Hence Ram’s age at the time of marriage wasn’t 14 or 15, but rather 23. (8+15=23)
Ram went to the forest exactly 13 months after His marriage. At that time Kausalya told Him :
दश सप्त च वर्षाणि तव जातस्य राघव । अतीतानि प्रकाांन्क्षत्या मया दुःख परिक्षयम् ।।2.20.45।।
Seventeen years have passed, since Your 2nd birth; all this while I expected that my sorrow
Will finally fade away

Thus it is clear That Ram went to forest at the age of 8+17=25 years; 13 months after getting married at the age of 23. (You may wonder why 13 months after 23 isn’t 24 years, but Ram married at the end of his 23rd year. Eg. 23 years, 11 months. So 13
months after that He was 25 year old). Sita also confirms this fact in the 47th chapter of the Araṇya-Kāṇḍa

मम भर्ता महातेजा वयसा पञ्चविंशकः अष्टादश हि वर्षाणि मम जन्मनि गण्यते 3.47.10,11।।
Ram was 25 and I was 18 years old when we went to the forest, since the time of birth
Most of the confusion has been caused by the misinterpretation of the below verse :
उषित्वा द्वादश समा इक्ष्वाकुणां निवेशने। भुञ्जाना मानुषान्भोगान्सर्वकामसमृद्धिनी।।3.47.4।।
तत्र त्रयोदशे वर्षे राजामन्त्रयत प्रभुः । अभिषेचयितुं रामं समेतो राजमन्त्रिभिः ।।3.47.5।।
I lived in th
the house of the Ikṣvākus for twelve years and enjoyed all the pleasures that a mortal can. In the thirteenth year of marriage, King Daśaratha consulted other ministers to coronate Rāma.
•Janaka describes Ram & Lakshman as “Samupasthita Yauvanau” (men who have reached the
the prime of their youth). In literature, this phrase is used for men in their 20s. (ref. 1.50.18)
•Janaka describes Sita as “Vardhamanam”. This phrase again is used to describe a girl in the prime of her youth in Sanskrit literature. Does it make any sense to refer to
a 6 year old “Vardhamanam”?
•Sita told Anasooya, that she married Ram when she reached marriageable age “Pati Sanyoga Sulabham”. According to Ayurveda a girl can’t marry before completing the 16th year and becoming 17 years old, and a boy can’t marry before 25.
(Sushruta Samhita 35.10). So clearly, Sita couldn’t have been 6 years old.
•Padma Puran describes Sita as a young woman during the Swayamvar.

These all verses clear that Bhagwan ram and mata Sita were not child at the age of marriage and sanatan is not allow बाल विवाह
Source- valmiki Ramayan by (k.k shastri sir translator)

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