[INDOLOGY] References on women scholars in ancient and medieval India

[Eugen Ciurtin]

Dear Dr Keller,

This valuable, freely available 2014 publication contains some hints about
the religious and (implicitely at least) scholarly role of women in ancient
and medieval (-Buddhist-) South Asia:

http://www.sati.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sati-Journal-Volume-2.pdf

Kind regards,
E.Ciurtin
Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy


2014-08-19 14:44 GMT+03:00 Agathe Keller <kellera at univ-paris-diderot.fr>:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have been asked by a non indologist colleague for references on women
> scholars in ancient and medieval India. Do you know of an article or a book
> which would deal directly with this subject?
>
> I have noted so far for him:
>
> Witzel, Michael. 2009. Female Rishis and philosophers in the
> Veda? Journal of South Asia Women Studies 11(1).
> http://asiatica.org/jsaws/11-1/female-rishis-and-philosophers-veda/
>
>  And
>
> Mary McGee, Ritual Rights The Gender Implications of Adhikdra in L. Patton
> ed Jewels of Authority, OUP 2002. 32-50 (esp. p.42)
>
> but this is very meager and vedic...
>
>  I can't help but feel that there is a very obvious reference that I must
> be lacking
>
> thanking you in advance for your help,
>
>
> Agathe
>
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