Ghoṣā
Vedic age · Ṛgveda 10.39–40 · ṛṣikā
Ghoṣā is a woman seer of the Ṛgveda, the daughter of Kakṣīvān. Two hymns of the tenth book (10.39 and 10.40), addressed to the Aśvins, the twin healer-gods, are attributed to her.
Tradition says she suffered from a skin disease that kept her unmarried at home for many years. She prayed to the Aśvins, who healed her, and she later married and had a son. Her hymns speak of the Aśvins’ kindness to the weak and the forgotten, and she is remembered as a learned woman of the Vedic age.
Ṛṣikā (woman seer) · Ṛgveda 10.39–40 · Hymns to the Aśvins