"In the Gupta era, there is evidence that a woman could be a teacher; as historian U. N. Ghoshal puts it, “Girls of high families, as also those living in hermitages, read works on ancient history and legend, and were educated sufficiently to understand and even compose verses. ... The Amarakosa, a work of the Gupta Age, refers to words meaning female teachers (upadhyaya2 and upadhyayi) as well as female instructors of Vedic mantras (acharya*).”"
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quoted in M Danino, WOMAN IN INDIAN HISTORY: A FEW VIGNETTES FR OM EPIGRAPHY FROM epigraphy in VOL. 3 ISSUE NO.110 YUGABDHAM: ASWINAM-POUSHAM 5111 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2009
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