An Essay On Freedom Of Women In Ancient India

Freedom of Women:
In ancient India, women have every right and freedom. Aditi, is mother of the gods (devamatha) and all twelve zodiacal spirits from whose cosmic matrix the heavenly bodies were born. She is mentioned nearly 80 times in the Rigveda. In contrast, the Puranas, such as the Shiva Purana and the Bhagavata Purana, suggest that Aditi is wife of sage Kashyap and gave birth to the Adityas such as Indra, Surya, and also Vamana.
Ila, The earth (Bhumata)
Saraswati
Mytreyi
In manusmriti, Manu talkes about Saraswati, Bhavani, Lakshmi
Women in Ancient Indi Moral and Literary studies by Clarisse Bader translated by Mary E.R. Martin. There are many evidences that there were some good scholars and learned women in ancient India. Like Gargi who is considered as a great scholar in ancient India participated in a debate with Yagnavalka in Yagnashala of King Janaka. She is also called as Brahmavadaini because of her having the knowledge of Brahma-vidya.
But in medieval India, women position had changed radically. Then became unpaid labor men. Later again their position turned as slaves. They did not have any right and socially, politically, economically their role was nothing.
The poets Subramania Bharati and Garimella Satyanarayana wished for women freedom. In the essay women’s freedom, Subramania Bharati says that “our women today are slaves. I am quite aware that we still retain something of the old Idea that the mother must be looked upon as a goddess by her children. But