Ghosha

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ghosha (Sanskrit: गॊश) was an ancient Indian female philosopher. She was the granddaughter of Dīrghatamas and daughter of Kakshivat, both of whom composed hymns in praise of Ashwin Kumars (the divine physician twins)^[1].

Two hymns of the tenth book of Rigveda, each containing 14 verses, have been attributed to Ghosha^[1]. The first hymn praises the Ashwin Kumars. The second hymn is a personal wish expressing her intimate feelings and desires for married life.

According to the legend, Ghosha suffered from leprosy, which disfigured her. When she had grew old, the Ashwin Kumars cured her disease, and gave her health, youth and beauty, so that she obtained a husband^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Vedic Women: Loving, Learned, Lucky!. Retrieved on 2006-12-24.

This article about a Hindu person or people is a stub. See the WikiProject Hinduism for article coordination. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Categories: Hindu people stubs | Ancient philosophers | Indian philosophers | Hindu philosophers | Year of birth unknown | Year of death unknown

Views

• Article
• Discussion
• Current revision

Navigation

• Main Page
• Contents
• Featured content
• Current events

Interaction

• About Wikipedia
• Community portal
• Recent changes
• Contact Wikipedia
• Donate to Wikipedia
• Help

Search

• This page was last modified 20:29, 6 April 2008 by Wikipedia user Dsp13. Based on work by Wikipedia user(s) Freedomji, Utcursch, Bakasuprman and Srkris and Anonymous user(s) of Wikipedia.
• All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.)
  Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
  
• About Wikipedia
• Disclaimers

aa - ab - af - ak - als - am - an - ang - ar - arc - as - ast - av - ay - az - ba - bar - bat_smg - bcl - be - be_x_old - bg - bh - bi - bm - bn - bo - bpy - br - bs - bug - bxr - ca - cbk_zam - cdo - ce - ceb - ch - cho - chr - chy - co - cr - crh - cs - csb - cu - cv - cy - da - de - diq - dsb - dv - dz - ee - el - eml - en - eo - es - et - eu - ext - fa - ff - fi - fiu_vro - fj - fo - fr - frp - fur - fy - ga - gan - gd - gl - glk - gn - got - gu - gv - ha - hak - haw - he - hi - hif - ho - hr - hsb - ht - hu - hy - hz - ia - id - ie - ig - ii - ik - ilo - io - is - it - iu - ja - jbo - jv - ka - kaa - kab - kg - ki - kj - kk - kl - km - kn - ko - kr - ks - ksh - ku - kv - kw - ky - la - lad - lb - lbe - lg - li - lij - lmo - ln - lo - lt - lv - map_bms - mdf - mg - mh - mi - mk - ml - mn - mo - mr - mt - mus - my - myv - mzn - na - nah - nap - nds - nds_nl - ne - new - ng - nl - nn - no - nov - nrm - nv - ny - oc - om - or - os - pa - pag - pam - pap - pdc - pi - pih - pl - pms - ps - pt - qu - quality - rm - rmy - rn - ro - roa_rup - roa_tara - ru - rw - sa - sah - sc - scn - sco - sd - se - sg - sh - si - simple - sk - sl - sm - sn - so - sr - srn - ss - st - stq - su - sv - sw - szl - ta - te - tet - tg - th - ti - tk - tl - tlh - tn - to - tpi - tr - ts - tt - tum - tw - ty - udm - ug - uk - ur - uz - ve - vec - vi - vls - vo - wa - war - wo - wuu - xal - xh - yi - yo - za - zea - zh - zh_classical - zh_min_nan - zh_yue - zu -