Indian Women Writers :: Literature Writing Middle Eastern Papers

Indian women writersA world of words, lost and found a shortened overview of womens literary works in India from the sixth century BC onwardsThe Vedas vociferation aloud, the Puranas shoutNo good may come to a woman.I was born with a womans bodyHow am I to attain uprightness?They are foolish, seductive, deceptive -Any connection with a woman is disastrous.Bahina says, If a womans body is so harmful,How in the world will I appreciation truth?Much of the worlds literature has been dominated by a economy that nearly dismissed womens writing more than two centuries ago. The counter-canons that have emerged as the result of this exclusion have helped to establish womens writing in mainstream culture, and still in some ways fail to acknowledge womens literature coming from non-white countries. This essay is an attempt to highlight some of the works produced by women in India over the ages.Although India has a history of ancient civilisations such as the Harappa and Mohenjodaro, and o f matrilineal societies in the south, no written records of womens literary prowess exists predating the 6th century BC. The emergence of the first body of poetry by women in India could be attributed to the advent of Buddhism. Perhaps it was the unornamenteddom offered by the religion, the way of feeling it offered to women, and the principle of equality that it propagated which allowed women to pen their thoughts for the first time.Buddhism offered women the opportunity to emit onward from the restrictions of home life, a major factor in the rise of Indian womens literature in the early 6th century BC. The earliest cognise anthology of womens literature in India has been identified as those belonging to the Therigatha nuns, the poets being multiplication of the Buddha. One of these, Mutta, writes, So free am I, so gloriously free, free from three petty things - from mortar, from pestle and from my twisted lord. Tharu and Lalita p.68Muttas works, translated from Pali, offer a n explanation through and through their interpretation. Religious escapism was the only way out for many women who were foiled with a life inside the home. They chose to join the Buddhist sangha (religious communities) in their attempts to break away from the social world of tradition and marriage. Thus emerged poems and songs about what it meant to be free from household chores and sexual slavery.Although the early forms of writing addressed the anaesthetise of personal freedom, the poetry that followed later was a celebration of womanhood and sexuality.