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Born to two mothers , The hero Bhagiratha Female-Female Love and Miraculous Birth in Hindu Texts Ruth Vanita This essay examines some fourteenth-century sacred narratives of the hero Bhagiratha 's birth to two queens who are co-wives and who become lovers after they are widowed. Placing these stories in the context of pre-modern Indian notions of co-wifehood, same- sex sexual relations, same-sex co-parenting, and miraculous or monstrous conception by Gods and humans, the author asks how a relationship that may be perceived as abnormal and a child that may be perceived as illegitimate come to be written into sacred texts as divinely blessed and miraculous. Love, Sex Or Both? perceived as contributing to the cross-sex sexual love too evokes In our book Same-Sex Love in welfare of the community and thereby some anxiety in most cultures, India, which was a collection of to the glory of Most of Bray's including Indic cultures.
22 MANUSHI Born to Two Mothers, The Hero Bhagiratha Female-Female Love and Miraculous Birth in Hindu Texts Ruth Vanita This essay examines some fourteenth-century sacred narratives of the hero Bhagiratha’s
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