Lopāmudrā
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Lopāmudrā · fl. c. 1300 BCE
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Who this is
Rigvedic ṛṣikā — woman seer; named by the canon's own index as a composer of Rigveda 1.179, the dialogue hymn in which a wife argues her ascetic husband back into the marriage.
“The oldest book in India contains a marital argument about years of celibacy — the wife opens it, the husband wavers, and the last verse says he ended up with everything, the spiritual power and the family — because his wife refused to accept that he had to choose.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The body's claims are not the spirit's enemy. Three thousand years before India's great debate between the householder's life and the renouncer's, a wife made the case for desire in sacred verse — and the canon kept her side of the argument.”
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