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Saints and Poets
He told her honestly that wealth cannot make anyone deathless. So she declined the settlement and asked for the other thing he had.
Yajnavalkya came home to divide his property because he was leaving.
He had two wives. Katyayani, the Brihadaranyaka says, had the understanding of an ordinary woman and is given one sentence in the whole account. Maitreyi was a brahmavadini, a woman who discussed Brahman, and the entire passage belongs to her.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.