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Gargi Vachaknavi was
an ancient Indian
female philosopher,
daughter of sage
Vachaknu, and born
in the family of
Garga, circa 800 -
500 BCE. Gargi is mentioned in the Sixth and the Eighth Brahmana of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, where the brahmayajna, a philosophic congress organized by King Janaka of Videha is described, she challenged the sage Yajnavalkya with perturbing questions on the atman (soul)[1][3]. In Vedic literature, she is honored as one of the great natural philosophers. Gargi composed several hymns that questioned the origin of all existence. Yogayajnavalkya Samhita, a classical text on Yoga is a dialogue between sage Yajnavalkya and Gargi Gargi was one of the Navaratnas in the court of King Janaka of Mithila. |
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