1. Medieval India and Women in the Bhakta System
... case the Deity) of their choice. They took control of their body, Akka Mahadevi and Lal Ded having shed their clothes, not letting the female body become a vulnerability and hence a hindrance in her goal. These traditions do away with the idea of a woman's impurity, due to her menstrual cycles, claiming that that too is a creation of God and hence automatically pure ... ...
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