Gargi Vachaknavi
Gargi Vachaknavi, or Gargi, in Vedic literature, is honored as one of the great natural philosophers.[1] She is mentioned in the Sixth and the Eighth Brahmana of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, where the brahmayajna, a philosophic congress organized by King Janaka of Videha is described, she challenged the sage Yajnavalkya with perturbing questions on the atman (soul).[2][3]
Gargi was named after the sage Garga, in whose lineage she was born; her last name comes from her father Vachaknu.[4]
Gargi composed several hymns that questioned the origin of all existence. The Yoga Yajnavalkya, a classical text on Yoga is a dialogue between Gargi and sage Yajnavalkya.[5] Gargi was one of the Navaratnas in the court of King Janaka of Mithila. She has composed several hymns and is an author of Gargi Samhita.
[edit] References
- ^ "Gargi". http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/GARGI.html. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
- ^ "Vedic Women: Loving, Learned, Lucky!". http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa031601c.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
- ^ Gargi - The Virgin Philosopher Swami Sivananda
- ^ Great Women of India. Know India. Prabhat Prakashan. 2005. p. 15. ISBN 978-81-87100-34-8.
- ^ Yogayajnavalkya Samhita - The Yoga Treatise of Yajnavalkya, by T. K. V. Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (2004), ISBN 8187847085.
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