THIRTY-THREE MILLION GODS

 THIRTY-THREE MILLION GODS

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THIRTY-THREE MILLION GODS --1

This is one thing that makes people skeptic about this sanatana dharma. Let 

us very briefly look into this issue. I drew certain ideas from Stephen Knapp's 

article on this.

The four primary Vedas represent the accomplishment of a highly developed 

religious system and encourage satisfaction of material desires through 

worship of the demigods. They contain many directions for increasing one’s 

power and position, or for reaching the heavens in one’s future by properly 

performing particular sacrifices in worship to Devas (demigods), and so on.

      Some people ask why there seems to be so many gods within Hinduism 

or Vedic culture. Yet, if we properly analyze the situation, we will understand that there is but one Supreme Being who has many agents or demigods who assist in managing the creation and the natural forces within. And, like anyone else, if they are properly approached with prayer or worship, they may help facilitate the person by granting certain wishes that may be within the jurisdiction of that demigod. Is it not resembling a present day office where all the entrants into the office need not see the boss for their petty wants? He is available only for those whose approach is for the ultimate.

       In some places in the Vedic literature it is explained that there are 33 

Vedic gods, or even as many as thirty-three million. The 33 gods are 

calculated as being eight Vasus, eleven Rudras (forms of Shiva), twelve 

Adityas, along with Indra and Prajapati (Brahma). Then there are also other 

positions that are considered major or minor devas. According to the Vedas, 

Devas are not imaginary or mythological beings, but are agents of the 

Supreme Will to administer different aspects of the universal affairs. They also 

represent and control various powers of nature. Thus, they manifest in the 

physical, subtle or psychic levels of our existence both from within and 

without. In this way, a transcendentalist sees that behind every aspect of 

nature is a personality.

       The names of these gods are considered offices or positions, rather than 

the actual name of the demigod. For example, we may call the president of 

the country by his personal name, or simply Mr. President. It’s the position 

itself that allows for him to have certain powers or areas of influence. In the 

case of the devas, it is only after accumulating much pious credit that a living 

being can earn the position of being a particular demigod. Then a person may 

become an Indra, or Vayu, or attain some other position to assume specific 

powers, or to control various aspects of material energy.

       Another example is that when you walk into a big factory, you see so 

many workers and all that they are doing. You may initially think that these 

workers are the reason for whatever goes on in the factory. However, more 

important than the workers are the foremen, the managers, and then the 

executives. Amongst these you will find people of varying degrees of 

authority. Someone will be in charge of designing the products. Another may 

be the Chief Financial Officer or main accountant. Another may be in charge 

of personnel, while someone else may be in charge of maintenance in the 

factory itself. Finally, a chief executive officer or president of the company is 

the most important of all. Without him there may not even be a company. 

You may not see the president right away, but his influence is everywhere 

since all the workers are engaging in projects according to his decisions. The 

managers and foremen act as his authorized agents to keep things moving 

accordingly. The numerous demigods act in the same way concerning the 

functions of nature, all of whom represent some aspect or power of the 

Supreme Will. That’s why it is sometimes said there are 33 million different 

gods in Hinduism. Actually, there may be many forms, Avataras, or aspects of 

God, but there is only one God, or one Absolute Truth.

Rest of the article tomorrow……….

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This is often a confusing issue to people new to Vedic philosophy. We often 

hear the question among Westerners that if Hinduism has so many gods, how 

do you know which ones to worship? The point is that the devas affect all 

levels of universal activities, including the weather, or who is bestowed with 

particular opulence such as riches, beautiful wife or husband, large family, 

good health, etc. For example, one could worship Agni for getting power, 

Durgadevi for good fortune, Indra for good sex life or plenty of rain, or the 

Vasus for getting money. Such instruction is in the karma-kanda section of 

the Vedas which many people considered to be the most important part of 

Vedic knowledge. This is for helping people acquire the facilities for living a 

basic material existence.

 

       There are, of course, various actions, or karmas, prompted by our desires 

to achieve certain results, but this is not the complete understanding of the 

karma-kanda section of the Vedas. The karma-kanda section is meant to 

supply the rituals for purifying our mind and actions in the pursuit of our 

desires, and not merely to live with the intent of acquiring all of one’s material 

wants and necessities from the demigods. By having faith and steadiness in 

the performance of the ritual, one establishes purification in one’s habits and 

thoughts. This provides a gradual process of acquiring one’s needs and 

working out one’s desires while simultaneously becoming purified and free of 

them. Such purification can then bring one to a higher level of spiritual 

activity. This was the higher purpose of the karma-kanda rituals. Without this 

understanding, one misses the point and remains attached to rituals in the 

pursuit of material desires, which will drag one further into material existence.

     The reciprocation between the demigods and society is explained in 

Bhagavad gita (3.10-12). It is stated that in the beginning the Lord of all beings 

created men and demigods along with the sacrifices to Lord Vishnu that were 

to be performed. The Lord blessed them saying that these sacrifices will enable 

men to prosper and attain all desirable things. By these sacrificial duties the 

demigods will be pleased and the demigods will also please you with all the 

necessities of life, and prosperity will spread to all. But he who enjoys what is 

given by the demigods without offering them in return is a thief.

     In this way, it was recommended that people could perform sacrificial 

rituals to obtain their desires. However, by the performance of such acts they 

should understand their dependent position, not only on the demigods, but 

ultimately on the Supreme Being. As further explained in Bhagavad-gita (3.14-

15), all living beings exist on food grains, which are produced from rain, which 

is produced by the performance of prescribed sacrifices or duties. These 

prescribed duties are described in the Vedic literature, which is manifest from 

the Supreme Being. Therefore, the Supreme is eternally established in acts of 

sacrifice.

 

       Although the demigods may accept worship from the human beings and 

bless them with particular benedictions according to the sacrifices that are 

performed, they are still not on the level of the Supreme Lord Vishnu (who is 

an incarnation of Lord Krishna). The Rig-veda (1.22.20) explains: “The 

demigods are always looking to that supreme abode of Vishnu.” Bhagavad-

gita (17.23) also points out: “From the beginning of creation, the three syllables 

om tat sat have been used to indicate the Supreme Absolute Truth 

(Brahman). They were uttered by brahmanas while chanting the Vedic hymns and during sacrifices, for the satisfaction of the Supreme.” In this way, by uttering om tat sat, which is stressed in Vedic texts, the performers of the rituals for worshiping the demigods were also offering obeisances to Lord Vishnu for its success. The four Vedas mainly deal with material elevation and since Lord Vishnu is the Lord of material liberation, most sacrifices were directed toward the demigods.

        In Bhagavad-gita, however, Lord Krishna points out that men of small 

knowledge, who are given to worldly desires, take delight in the flowery words 

of the Vedas that prescribe rituals for attaining power, riches, or rebirth in 

heaven. With their goal of enjoyment they say there is nothing else than this. 

However, Krishna goes on to explain (in Bhagavad-gita 7.21-23) that when a 

person desires to worship a particular demigod for the temporary and limited 

fruits he or she may bestow, Krishna, as the Supersoul in everyone’s heart, 

makes that person’s faith in that demigod steady. But all the benefits given by 

any demigod actually are given by Krishna alone, for without whom no one 

has any power. The worshipers of the demigods go to the planets of the 

demigods, but worshipers of Krishna reach Krishna’s spiritual abode.

continued.......

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       Thus, as one progresses in understanding, it is expected that they will 

gradually give up the pursuit for temporary material pleasures and then begin 

to endeavor for reaching the supreme goal of Vedic knowledge. For one who 

is situated in such knowledge and is self-realized, the prescribed duties in the Vedas for worshiping the demigods are unnecessary. As Bhagavad-gita (3.17-18) explains, for one who is fully self-realized, who is fully satiated in the self, delights only in the self, there is no duty or need to perform the prescribed duties found in the Vedas, because he has no purpose or material desires to fulfill.

However, another view of the Vedic gods is that they represent different 

aspects of understanding ourselves, especially through the path of yoga and 

meditation. For example, the god of wind is Vayu, and is related to the 

practice of yoga as the breath and its control in pranayama. Agni is the god 

of fire and relates to the fire of consciousness or awareness. Soma relates to 

the bliss in the samadhi of yoga practice. Many of the Vedic gods also 

represent particular powers of yoga and are related to the different chakras in 

the subtle body. It is accepted that as a person raises his or her consciousness 

through the chakras, he or she will attain the level of awareness and the 

power and assistance that is associated with the particular divine personality 

related to that chakra.

Swasthi.

My Heart Beat

 

My Heart Beat

This is the feeling from the core of my heart about 

My WIFE

(Try To Read If You Find Time)

https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-wife.html

Under normal course the male, when ripe, get married to a suitable girl. It all depends on how they make chemistry with each other.

As regards me, I got married at 21, when my wife was 14. Honestly I feel that to be the age to build up an interwoven relationship. Me, being elder, I took lead to be closer to her who entered into my life with certain aspirations than making a trail to understand me. However I could mould her to set her right to the family environment.

My effort did not go waste. She transformed herself into an indispensable personality to the house. With so many laurels to her credit, she served my Grandmother (My Mother's Mother) who brought me up as I lost my mother at my 2nd year of my age, for 4 1\2 years attending every need of her including her calls of nature also. I know this is too small a tribute I can pay her who still serves this lazy person with all the love and affection.

I am the body she is the soul

Who plays main role my life as a whole  

She is my wife for my miseries she is the knife

She rules over me without commanding armies

She can wound and hurt me without swords and arms

But she loves me to the core 

And on me showers it more and more

Her smile is a boon and weep is a typhoon

I can't bear her tiff but titter

She is my everlasting spring weather

Spell bound I stare at her face

That always glows in innocent grace

She is the fret of my Sitar

Guiding me to press the appropriate tar

(Sanskrit, tar= String)

To give sweet sound reminding me the rapport

And only shrill noise without such support

She is the source of water and light

For my garden to my delight

She craved for my progress and prosperity

Always and all along with the almighty

She is not a lady of shapes and curves

And never makes sudden swerves

How can I equate her with a lean Lilly

She is my rose actually

Taking me out of the den

And making me enjoy the fragrance of the garden

Like light to the sun and flight to the bird

Let me be the meaning of her every word

I promise and swear to God above

I adore her always with my pure love

Nothing she asked except children

For which I took twenty years to run

To her I gave grief and agony

In lieu of jewels and money

Still she loves and lives for me

Even in dreams I was never her enemy

Children are her priority

I come under minority

But never has she showed any superiority

She is a lady with all veracity

She loves all and loved by all

They help at her beck and call

In fact, she is, my guarding wall

If she not there I will spall (breaking into pieces)

From her I draw all the yare (liveliness)

Without her my life is a night mare

Here or there, for that matter any where

With her I want a berth to share

CHERUKU RAMA MOHAN RAO

Vedic Mathematics

Vedic Mathematics

       https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2020/12/vedic-mathematics-it-requires-little.html

It requires a little patience and concern for the motherland, for readers to go through this lengthy article. It is imperative on our part to know the greatness of our ancestors who made our heads with all pride and vanity. It is their rich contribution to the mathematical world to have a breakthrough in several vital areas of mathematics.

At the outset I salute Sri Kosla Vepa Ph.D for his extensive and enormous research with all his commitment dedication and devotion for this great country, its culture, tradition and for those great people who never mind for their personal name and fame but contributed everything they know to the mankind without any reciprocation.

Uncovering the scope of Ancient Indian Mathematics faces a twofold difficulty. To determine who discovered what we must have an accurate idea of the chronology of Ancient India.  This has been made doubly difficult by the faulty dating of  Indian Historical events by Sir William Jones, who practically invented the fields of linguistics and philology if for a moment we discount the contributions of Panini (Ashtadhyayi)and Yaska (Nirukta) a couple of millennia before him . Sir William, who was reputed to be an accomplished linguist, was nevertheless totally ignorant of Sanskrit  when he arrived in India and proceeded in short order to decipher the entire history of  India from his own meager understanding of the language, In the process he brushed aside the conventional history as known and memorized by Sanskrit pundits for hundreds  of years and as recorded in the Puranas and invented a brand new timeline for India which was not only egregiously wrong  but hopelessly scrambled up the sequence of events and personalities. See for instance my chronicle on the extent of the damage caused by Sir William and his cohorts in my essay on the South Asia File.

It is not clear whether this error was one caused by inadequate knowledge of language or one due to deliberate falsification of records. It is horrific to think that a scholar of the stature of sir William would resort to skullduggery merely to satisfy his preconceived notions of the antiquity of Indic contributions to the sum of human knowledge. Hence we will assume Napoleon’s dictum was at play here and that we should attribute not to malice that which can be explained by sheer incompetence. This mistake has been compounded over the intervening decades by a succession of  British historians, who intent on reassuring themselves of their racial  superiority, refused to acknowledge the antiquity  of India, merely because ‘it could not possibly be’. When once they discovered the antiquity of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Babylon, every attempt was made not to disturb the notion that the Tigris Euphrates river valley was the cradle of civilization.

The Wikipedia section on Indian Mathematics says the following;

Unfortunately, Indian contributions have not been given due acknowledgement in modern history, with many discoveries/inventions by Indian mathematicians now attributed to their western counterparts, due to Eurocentrism.

The historian Florian Cajori, one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in the early 20th century, suggested that "Diophantus, the father of Greek algebra, got the first algebraic knowledge from India." This theory is supported by evidence of continuous contact between India and the Hellenistic world from the late 4th century BC, and earlier evidence that the eminent Greek mathematician Pythagoras visited India, which further 'throws open' the Eurocentric ideal.

More recently, evidence has been unearthed that reveals that the foundations of calculus were laid in India, at the Kerala School. Some allege that calculus and other mathematics of India were transmitted to Europe through the trade route from Kerala by traders and Jesuit missionaries. Kerala was in continuous contact with China, Arabia, and from around 1500, Europe as well, thus transmission would have

Furthermore, we cannot discuss Vedic mathematics without discussing Babylonian and Greek Mathematics to give it the scaffolding and context. We will devote some attention to these developments to put the Indic contribution in its proper context

However in recent years, there has been greater international recognition of the scope and breadth of the Ancient Indic contribution to the sum of human knowledge especially in some fields of science and technology such as Mathematics and Medicine. Typical of this new stance is the following excerpt by researchers at St. Andrews in Scotland.

An overview of Indian mathematics

It is without doubt that mathematics today owes a huge debt to the outstanding contributions made by Indian mathematicians over many hundreds of years. What is quite surprising is that there has been a reluctance to recognize this and one has to conclude that many famous historians of mathematics found what they expected to find, or perhaps even what they hoped to find, rather than to realize what was so clear in front of them.

We shall examine the contributions of Indian mathematics in this article, but before looking at this contribution in more detail we should say clearly that the "huge debt" is the beautiful number system invented by the Indians on which much of mathematical development has rested. Laplace put this with great clarity:-

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated. Its simplicity lies in the way it facilitated calculation and placed arithmetic foremost amongst useful inventions. The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the so called two greatest men of Antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.

We shall look briefly at the Indian development of the place-value decimal system of numbers later in this article and in somewhat more detail in the separate article Indian numerals. First, however, we go back to the first evidence of mathematics developing in India.

Histories of Indian mathematics used to begin by describing the geometry contained in the Sulvasutras but research into the history of Indian mathematics has shown that the essentials of this geometry were older being contained in the altar constructions described in the Vedic mythology text the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Taittiriya Samhita. Also it has been shown that the study of mathematical astronomy in India goes back to at least the third millennium BC and mathematics and geometry must have existed to support this study in these ancient times.

Equally exhaustive in its treatment is the Wiki encyclopedia, where in general the dates are still suspect.

Swasthi.

Funny English - Find Time to Laugh

 

 Funny English- Find Time to Laugh

https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2020/10/funny-english.html

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,

But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,

Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,

Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,

Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,

And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,

Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,

And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,

But though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,

But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim! Let's face it - 

English is a crazy language.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not mop? 

And if people from Poland are called Poles

Then people from Holland should be Holes

And the Germans, Germs.

Find Time to Laugh

Why the place in a stadium where you SIT is, called a STAND?

There is racial discrimination even in chess, Whites always move first.

We have Freedom of Speech, Why should we pay TELEPHONE BILLS?

So many Organizations have branches. Where is the tree?

Why do we still call it BUILDING, when it’s already BUILT?

If it’s true that we all are here to HELP others, where can we find others?

If you aren't supposed to Drink and Drive, Why do bars have Parking lots?

A ‘Dog Food’ carton had the label 'New with Improved Taste', Who Tested It?

When the "Black Box" Never Damages in Plane Crash, Why not Airplane be made out Of That Stuff?

 People Say "You've Been Working like a Dog", But Dogs Sit around All Day??

 We all live in a seriously funny world.  See it in the lighter vein to laugh.

 

Panchakanya

                                               Pancha Kanya

https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2020/09/panchakanya.html

 I am making a small attempt with the hope that you will appreciate it. I opted for English just for the reason that I have to type more English letters to get Telugu words if I express myself in Telugu.

As you know the time, (mahaayugas, kalpas, manvantaras,) is a wheel and if one cycle is completed the other starts. As such we come across so many incidents pertaining to the same Yuga of various cycles. The ultimate conclusion being the same the incidents leading to the climax vary as we find through many Puranas. The other thing is when such things are narrated by poets, for their own reasons they mold the ‘Katha vastu’ to their own taste. We can even quote Kalidasa also for the same. Keeping these things into mind we now take up the topic of ‘Pancha Kanyas and not as 'Pancha Pativratas'.

 'Ahalya Droupadi Sita Taaraa Mandodaristathaa

Panchakanyaa smarennityam mahaapaataka naasanam’

The verse possesses a puzzle worth grappling with. The important thing that strikes to us is the epithet ‘Kanya’ who for the common sense are not kanyas. On the other hand they had some unnatural relationship.

If we keenly observe, of this group of five Ahalya, Tara, sita and Mandodari belong to Ramayana and only Droupadi belongs to Mahabharata. Hence somehow I am not able to consider Tara of Brihaspati. However we will look into it afterwards. So let us now consider the names mentioned in the above sloka one by one. However I am not trying to elaborate their life stories but to the point.

Ahalya: The name Ahalya itself has two meanings. One is not to find fault with. The second is who cannot be ploughed. Hence I feel the name itself confirms her virginity. She was unique beauty created specially by Lord Brahma and handed over to Gautama, unlike the normal human beings. She is beyond human relationships and hence is a virgin. (I do not want to go deep into stories as you too know them.)

Sita: Sita is ayonija and the one suspicion on her is Ravana forcibly makes her sit on his lap. But at the end she proves her chastity by sinking into earth. Hence undoubtedly she is a virgin.

Tara: She I s a woman of unusual intelligence, fore site and self-confidence. She has the title ‘sarvabhuta ritajna ‘meaning having knowledge of languages of all the creatures (Maha Bharata)

In the Balinese dance Kebyar “Rama helps Sugriva get his lover Tara back from his brother Vali. In Narasimhapurana Tara is actually Sugriva’s wife and Vali forcibly takes her into his fold.  According to Telugu Ranganatha Ramayana Tara was gifted to both Vali and Sugriva by Suras acknowledging the helping hand they extended to them while churning for Amrita. Tara signifies ‘both Star’ and the ‘pupil of the eye’ conveying the idea of a Focal Point depicting concentrated essence. Among the ten mahavidyas Tara takes the second place. Tara symbolizes ‘light’ which represents guidance, path finding, knowledge and a tool to overcome the hurdles. All these we find in Tara of Ramayana.

As regards Tara of Brihaspati the following is the little I can tell.

The Theosophical Encyclopedia refers to the Puranic legends, where Tara is the second wife of Brihaspati who is the equivalent of Jupiter and the spiritual guru of the gods. Tara was carried off by Soma (Moon) and bore a son named Budha (Wisdom), who is considered to have written a hymn in the Rig Veda. In The Secret Doctrine, H.P. Blavatsky indicates that Brahmanaspati (Brihaspati) represents the materialization of the divine grace through exoteric rituals and ceremonies, while Tara - his wife - is the personification of an initiate in the (secret knowledge). Through soma (the sacred beverage of the rishis), Tara is initiated in the mysteries, which results in Budha (esoteric wisdom).

We can also interpret her name as coming from the causative form of the verb t.’r, meaning ‘to cross’, ‘to traverse’ or ‘to escape’.  Tara, therefore, carries an aura of internecine strife.

Hence I feel Tara is virgin in both the cases.

Rest Next……………

4. Mandodari:  Mandodari:  The Ananda Ramayana account (1.9.33-57) has Vishnu create her from the sandalwood paste smeared on his body to delude Ravana into believing that she is Parvati, whom he has asked for from Shiva. Another story is that she is the daughter of Mayasura the son of Kasyapa prajapati and Hema an Apsarasa,

According to the Ranganath Ramayana, it is Parvati who makes the doll and Shiva breathes life into it. The doll is Mandodari, whose beauty causes Parvati concern; she has Shiva turn Mandodari into a frog. When Maya the asura begs for children, Shiva restores the frog to human form and gives her to the Danava as his daughter.

Hence like Ahalya, Sita, Tara and Draupadi, Mandodari is also ayonija, once again, not-of-woman-born. There is an analogous myth about her origin in the Telegu Uttara Ramayana.  Once, when Parvati was away, Shiva had intercourse with the apsara Madhura, who came to Kailash to worship him. On her return, Parvati turned Madhura into a frog. After twelve years, by Shiva’s grace, the frog took the form of Mandodari who was adopted by Maya and Hema and became the wife of Ravana. “The sperm of Shiva which remained dormant in the womb of Mandodari when she was a frog began to develop, and finally gave birth to Indrajit. Thus, the so-called son of Ravana – Indrajit of Lanka – was an intelligence son [sic] of Shiva. “Here we find another clue to the reason behind her name. Desiraju Hanumanta Rao, translating and commenting on the epic, writes, “When Shurpanakha was claiming herself a befitting female for Rama, and belittling Seetha she uses words like krishodari, shaatodari meaning “a female with feeble... So also manda udari means 'slow, womb... and hence she is lady with slow conception...' Mandodari gives birth to one Indrajit, son of Ravana, an extraordinary fighter, and all-conquering warrior. Had Mandodari given birth to one or two more Indrajit-s, a dozen Rama-s have to take incarnation is what was told by sage Valmiki in yuddhakanda. 

Because it was the custom among Rakshasas and Vanaras to wed an enthroned queen for the new ruler Tara and Mandodari got married to the successors of the thrown.

Hence I believe strongly that she is considered as a virgin.

 

Droupadi: Droupadi is Agni sambhava.  Kunti herself describes Draupadi to Krishna as sarvadharmopacayinam (fosterer of all virtues, Udyoga Parva 137.16), using the identical term by which Yayati describes his daughter Madhavi while gifting her to Galava (ibid. 115.11). The conjunction of both occurrences of this epithet in the same Parva is surely deliberate on part of the seer-poet Vyasa for drawing our attention to these correspondences. Droupadi’s name is actually 'Krishna' and she used to address Krishna as 'Sakha' and he to her as 'Sakhi'. This says that she is Krishna's alter-ego. It is also told in Maha Bharata as per the contract among Pandavas when she goes to her other husband’s house her chastity was reinstated and as such she is chaste and is a virgin.

 

If we closely observe the names of the characters of Itihasas are especially named after their qualities and that way also they are KANYAS.

 

Above all they are Vanaras Devatas and Rakshasas. They have their own customs, traditions, and laws by which their serenity is judged.

In Oria I came across this Sloka which goes on like this.

Pancha bhuta kshiti op tejo maruta Byomo 
Poncha sati nirjyasa gyani bodho Gomyo

Ahalya Draupadi Kunti Sita Tara Mandodari tatha Pancha kanya...

Five elements, earth, water, fire, [[wind, ether are in essence the five satis. This, the wise know as Ahalya, Draupadi, Sita, Tara and Mandodari.

The five virgins...Ahalya personifies water, Draupadi represents fire, Sita symbolises mother earth and Tara personifies wind and Mandodari ether. 

 This is what the best I could give an account of the topic.

Swasti.