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Sulabhā Maitreyī
सुलभा मैत्रेयी
Sulabhā Maitreyī
Sulabhā, a wandering woman ascetic of the Mahābhārata, tests King Janaka's claim to liberation and dismantles it in a long, closely argued speech on the inwardness of renunciation.
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- Renunciation, philosophy of liberation
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- textually attested
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