And Hasyacudamani by Vatsaraja is also interesting. There are an ascetic and an old bawd, they form a couple. They don't exchange genders, but they do exchange gender roles.
Dmitrii Komissarov сб, 14 мар. 2026 г., 11:56 Robert Leach via INDOLOGY < [email protected]>: > Dear Marco, > > Androgyny probably doesn't count as gender change per se but there is the > depiction of Prajāpati in a few places in Vedic literature, not as fully > androgynous (in the manner of Ardhanārīśvara), but as a male god with > breasts (*stána-*) that lactate. There is also the case of Indra assuming > the form of a woman, this is probably already covered in some of the > secondary literature you mention. > > Best wishes, > > Robert > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM Marco Franceschini via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear friends and colleagues, >> >> one of my students is writing her undergraduate thesis on the theme of >> gender change in pre-modern Sanskrit literature. >> So far, we have identified the following cases: >> - Ila/Sudyumna-Ilā (*Rāmāyaṇa*, *Bhāgavatapurāṇa*, *Viṣṇupurāṇa*, >> *Vāyupurāṇa*) >> - Bhaṅgāsvana (*Mahābhārata*) >> - Śikhaṇḍin (*Mahābhārata*) >> - Mūladeva (*Vetālapañcaviṃśati*) >> - Rūpāvatī (*Divyāvadāna*) >> - Arjuna (*Mahābhārata*) >> >> As for studies on the subject, we have been able to identify only these >> three: >> - M. Bloomfield, *On the Art of Entering Another's Body: A Hindu Fiction >> Motif* >> - N. Brown, *Change of Sex as a Hindu Story Motif* >> - R. Goldman, *Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India* >> >> I would be grateful for any additional suggestions you might wish to >> provide. >> >> Thank you in advance for your suggestions. >> Best wishes, >> >> Marco >> --- >> Marco Franceschini >> ———————————--- >> Associate Professor >> University of Bologna >> Department of History and Cultures >> Personal web page <https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/marco.franceschini3/en> >> Academia web page <http://unibo.academia.edu/MarcoFranceschini> >> — >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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