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For Women
Vrat kathas, household puja, devi worship.
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In King Janaka's assembly the hardest question came from a woman — the passage from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad that has been read for two and a half thousand years.
Told to Yudhishthira in the Mahabharata: a woman who chose her husband knowing he had one year to live — and then argued with Death itself.
The story and the procedure of the day-long fast observed by married women for their husbands' wellbeing.
Three gods arrived as guests and set a condition that would break any householder. Anasuya neither refused nor submitted — she found a third way.
After losing both her husband and her father-in-law, one woman took charge of Malwa — and rebuilt ruined temples, ghats and rest-houses from Kashi to Rameshwaram.
Yajnavalkya was dividing his estate before leaving for the forest. One of his wives asked for something that was not in it.
A household servant in Pandharpur whose songs are still sung — and who, tradition says, had Vitthal himself sitting at the other handle of her grindstone.
Why there is a tulsi in every courtyard, and why Tulsi Vivah is performed in Kartik — a story the Puranas themselves tell as a wound.
A Rajput princess who kept singing to Krishna when her palace, her rank and her safety all told her to be quiet.
A simple Friday Mahalakshmi puja that any household can observe.