Gargi Vachaknavi

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Gargi Vachaknavi was an ancient Indian female philosopher, born in the family of Garga, circa 800 - 500 BCE [1]. She was daughter of sage Vachaknavi.

Gargi 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]. In Vedic literature, she is honored as one of the great natural philosophers[4]. She was the daughter of sage Vachaknu[2].

Gargi composed several hymns that questioned the origin of all existence. Yogayajnavalkya Samhita, a classical text on Yoga is a dialogue between sage Yajnavalkya and Gargi [5]

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  1. ^ Gargi www.women-philosophers.com.
  2. ^ a b Vedic Women: Loving, Learned, Lucky!. Retrieved on 2006-12-24.
  3. ^ Gargi - The Virgin Pholosopher Swami Sivananda
  4. ^ Gargi. Retrieved on 2006-12-24.
  5. ^ 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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