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Swami Vivekananda in: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 5/Writings: Prose and Poems/The East and The West/Progress of Civilisation, Wikisource
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And the worthy daughters of those far-famed ladies [Ahalyâ, Târâ, Mandodari, Kunti, and Draupadi] of the Paurânika age, whose names we are to repeat every morning—they can no longer marry more than one husband at a time, even if they want to, and so they turn unchaste.

— Mandodari

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "And the worthy daughters of those far-famed ladies [Ahalyâ, Târâ, Mandodari, Kunti, and Draupadi] of the Paurânika age, whose names we are to repeat every morning—they can no longer marry more than one husband at a time, even if they want to, and so they turn unchaste." in the context of "Swami Vivekananda in: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 5/Writings: Prose and Poems/The East and The West/Progress of Civilisation, Wikisource" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Mandodari

Mandodari (Sanskrit: मंदोदरी Mandodarī, lit. "soft-bellied";) is the queen consort of Ravana, the king of Lanka, according to the Hindu epic Ramayana. The Ramayana describes Mandodari as beautiful, pious, and righteous. She is extolled as one of the Panchakanya ("five girls"), the recital of whose names is believed to dispel sin. Mandodari is the daughter of Mayasura, the King of the Asuras (demons), and the apsara Hema. Mandodari bears two sons: Meghanada (Indrajit) and Akshayakumara.