Ahalya

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Gautama Ṛṣi’s wife. When the wives of the other six sages refused to let her husband’s disciples draw water first, she fetched it herself rather than escalate the quarrel — a peaceful response which, in this telling, only deepened their resentment and set the whole conflict in motion.

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