Using Lopamudra, women today can see how strong a woman could be in a Vedic family and how society needed stronger women in a time when where women were suppressed by lack of property and were held to a high standard of honor. The hymn is found in the first Appendix of the RigVeda and includes Lopamudra, Agastya and a poet who wrote it all. Lopamudra: For many autumns I have toiled, night and day, and each dawn has brought old age closer, an age that distorts the glory of the body. Manly men should go to their wives. Because even the men of the past, who acted according to the Law and spoke about the Law with the gods, stopped when they found no end. Women should unite with manly men. Agastya: Not in vain all this toil, which the gods encourage. We two must always fight against each other, and in this way we will win the race that is won by a hundred means, when we unite as a couple. Lopamudra: Desire has come upon me for the bull roaring and being held, desire engulfing me from this side, from that side, from all sides. Poet: Lopamudra brings out the virile bull: the foolish woman sucks the panting wise man. Agastya: With this Some that I have drunk, in the inmost heart of my heart I say: Let him forgive us if we have sinned, for a mortal is full of many desires. Poet: Agastya, he dug with spades, wishing for children, progeny and strength, he fed both ways, for he was a mighty sage. He found the fulfillment of his true hope among the gods. She was able to tell her husband that she was not supported by him and that she needed more from their relationship. Her character breaks the stereotypes of the "typical" Indian woman. "Lopamudra's attitude expresses a clear desire to de-stereotype the passivity of women." The woman......middle of paper......Anita. “Is Arranged Marriage Really Worse Than Craigslist?” New York magazine, . http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/11621/ (accessed March 18, 2014).Jha, Ganganatha. Manu-smrti; the laws of Manu with the bhāsya of Mēdhātithi.. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 192026.Jowett, Benjamin. Aristotle's Politics. New York: Modern Library, 1943. Leslie, Julia. Myth and myth-making: continuing evolution in the Indian tradition. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996.RigVeda App. 1:179"Rig Veda, The." Rig Veda: 1200-900 BC. http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/india/rigveda.html (accessed 24 April 2014). Trautmann, Thomas R. India: Brief History of a Civilization Oxford University Press, 2010.van Buitenen, JAB The Mahabharata United States of America: University of Chicago, 1975. http://books.google.com/books?id= bIWyuCFdCiQC&printsec=frontcover.