Romaśā
c. 1300 BCE · Kurukshetra
Legendary Rigvedic woman seer (rishikā) named in the Rigveda (associated with hymn 1.126). No historical dates exist; the date is a Rigvedic-stratum convention and historicity is uncertain.
Romaśā is a legendary woman seer (ṛṣikā) of the Rigveda, named in tradition as the seer of a verse (RV 1.126.7) in a hymn of the first Maṇḍala, in which she speaks as a wife. The name "Romaśā" is itself drawn from a word in the verse (romaśā, "hairy" — sarvāham asmi romaśā, "I am hairy all over"), and commentators differ on whether it names a poetess at all, some reading the word instead as a description (e.g. of land "covered with grass"); she is counted among the women seers whose voices the Rigveda preserves. By later tradition — the Bṛhaddevatā (attributed to Śaunaka, III.155–156) and Sāyaṇa's commentary — she is identified as a daughter of Bṛhaspati given in marriage to King Bhāvayavya. Her figure is known only through scripture and later legend.
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