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Hard to Catch as the Wind: The Rigveda's Oldest Love Story
In eighteen verses of Rigveda 10.95, a mortal king begs a vanishing celestial nymph to stay, and she refuses. It may be the oldest recorded lovers' quarrel in any Indo-European language, and the seed of the swan-maiden tale told from Sweden to Japan.
Hidden Women of the Rigveda: The Female Voices Most Readers Miss
Beyond Lopāmudrā and Apālā lie a set of bolder, sometimes uncomfortable female voices preserved in the Rigveda's dialogue hymns. A reading of Yamī, Urvaśī, Indrāṇī, Sūryā and the lesser-known Rishikas, with notes on how later tradition quieted them.