In the Rig Veda, there are some women seers, eg. Ghosha, Lopamudra, etc. In the Upanisads, there were female philosophers like Maitreyi, Gargi etc
Best wishes,
Rahula
--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <palismith@...> wrote:
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> Dear Rahula,
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> thanks for pointing that out. May I say that the Jains were the only exception? There is some information on Wikipedia on this.
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> metta,
> Yong Peng.
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