Template:Did you know nominations/Lopamudra

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 18:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Lopamudra

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Lopamudra with husband Agastya

... that Laurie L. Patton interprets Rigveda hymn 79 as representing Lopamudra (pictured with Agastya) in a state of "voracious sexuality", initially resisted by Agastya but he is finally “overwhelmed”?

ALT1:... that the legend of Lopamudra (pictured with Agastya) in Mahabharata is said to be "the glorification of domestic life and family and demonstrates the incompleteness of a life based solely on asceticism”
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carrot soup

5x expanded by Nvvchar (talk). Self-nominated at 01:32, 10 December 2015 (UTC).

DYK checklist template

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Passes DYK checklist. Both hooks good. I like original one. Article expanded from just under 2000 characters to over 18,000 characters = 9 times expansion, which is more than enough to qualify.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:56, 25 December 2015 (UTC)