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Women were made eligible for admission to what was known as the Bhikshuni-Sangha, the Order of Nuns, which opened to them avenues of culture and social service and ample
opportunities for public life. The young Buddhist Church ‘of those early days was also able to attract the sympathy and generosity of many a lay lady. The [...]

The wife must be educated enough to be able to talce pare in Vedic ceremonies of mystical significance ‘the illiterate wife is’ unworthy of a husband’. Purva-mimamsa is interpreted by Sabara Svami as dealing with the equal rights. of men and women to the performance of the ‘highest religious ceremonies. Heniadri refers to educated kumaris [...]

My Lord, if this whole earth full of wealth (sarva prithivi vittena puma) belonged to me, tell me, should I be immortal with it or no ? (tenamrita. syamiti tena prithivipuranavittasadhyena karmana gnihotradina amrita kim syalniti) No, replied Yajnavalkya, like the wife of a rich man will be thy life. But there is no hope [...]

At the end of the conference, after Yajnavalkya had satisfactorily answered the challenge and . The questions of Gargi, may consider it a good thing if you can now get off by simply bowing before him. No one, I am sure, can ever dream of defeating him in any argument concerning Brahman.”
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The last named was a conspicuous figure at the conference. She came forward boldly to cross lances in argument with the male philosophers. A position of authority was assumed by Rishi Yajnavalkya, who was therefore a target of attack by Gargi. She began by saying As a heroic youth from Kasi or Tideha bends his [...]