your bridge home
Saints and Poets
She did not argue a doctrine. She asked what the world was woven on, and then what that was woven on, and would not stop.
Gargi Vachaknavi was a brahmavadini, a woman who spoke of Brahman, and in the most learned assembly in the land she was the one who took the questioning furthest.
King Janaka of Videha had a thousand cows brought into the assembly, with gold ornaments tied to the horns of each. Whichever of the assembled brahmins knew Brahman best should drive them home, he said.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.