Apālā
c. 1300 BCE · Chitrakoot
Legendary Rigvedic woman seer (rishikā) credited with hymn 8.91 of the Rigveda. No historical dates exist; the date is a Rigvedic-stratum convention only and historicity is uncertain.
Apālā (Apālā Ātreyī) is a legendary woman seer (rishikā) of the Rigveda, traditionally regarded as a daughter of the sage Atri. She is credited with hymn RV 8.91, addressed to Indra; in the traditional narrative preserved in ancillary Vedic texts such as the Bṛhaddevatā, she suffers from a skin affliction and, through devotion and an offering of soma, is healed by Indra. She is counted among the roughly two dozen rishikās named in Vedic tradition. Her story survives through scripture and legend, not history.
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