Using Lopamudra, women today can see how strong a woman in a Vedic family could be and how society had need for stronger women at a time when women were suppressed by lack. of property and were held to a high standard of honor. The hymn is found in the first appendix of the RigVeda and includes Lopamudra, Agastya and a poet who wrote it all. Lopamudra: For many autumns I have worked night and day, and each dawn has brought old age closer, an age that distorts the glory of the body. Manly men should go to their wives. For even the men of the past, who acted according to the Law and spoke of the Law with the gods, departed when they did not find the end of it. Women should unite with virile men. Agastya: It is not in vain that all this labor the gods encourage. We must always fight against each other, and thus we will win the race which is won by a hundred means, when we merge as a couple. Lopamudra: Desire came upon me for the bull that roars and is restrained, desire engulfing me from this side, from that side, from all sides.Poet: Lopamudra brings out the virile bull: the foolish woman sucks the panting sage.Agastya: By this little that I have drunk, in my deepest heart I say: Let him forgive us if we have sinned, for a mortal is full of many desires. Poet: Agastya, digging with shovels, wishing for children, offspring and strength, fed both ways, for he was a powerful sage. He found the fulfillment of his true hope among the gods. She was able to tell her husband that she was not supported by him and that she needed more from their relationship. Her character breaks the stereotypes of the “typical” Indian woman. "Lopamudra's attitude expresses a clear desire to de-stereotype the passivity of women." The woman...... middle of paper...... Anita. “Is Arranged Marriage Really Worse Than Craigslist?.” New York Magazine, . http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/11621/ (accessed March 18, 2014). Jha, Ganganatha. Manu-smrti; the laws of Manu with the bhāsya of Mēdhātithi. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 192026. Jowett, Benjamin. Aristotle's politics. New York: Modern Library, 1943. Leslie, Julia. Myth and mythmaking: continuing evolution of Indian tradition. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996. RigVeda Application. 1:179"Rig Veda, The." Rig Veda: 1200-900 BC. http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/india/rigveda.html (accessed April 24, 2014). Trautmann, Thomas R. India: A Brief History of a Civilization Oxford University Press, 2010.van Buitenen, JAB The Mahabharata United States of America: University of Chicago, 1975. http://books.google.com/books? id=bIWyuCFdCiQC&printsec=frontcover.