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२०वा ] धर्मशास्त्र. ३९ "We must, at any rate, assume among the Brahmans of this period a very stirring intellectual life, in which even the women took an active part, and which accounts still further for the superiority maintained and exercised by the Brahmans over the rest of the people. women who with enthusiastic ardour plunge into the mysteries of speculation, impressing and astonishing men by the depth and loftiness of their opinions, and who- while in a state which, judging from description, seems to have been a kind of somnambulism,-solve the questions proposed to them on sacred subjects." (History of Indian Literature.) P. P. 21-22