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She Left With Nothing On

A woman in twelfth-century Karnataka walked out of a king’s house wearing only her hair, and everyone she met had to work out what to do about it.

She walked out of the palace with nothing on.

That is the fact everything else about Akka Mahadevi has to be arranged around.

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