Denton Lynn Teskey. Female Ascetics in Hinduism

State University of New York Press, 2004 — 230 p.Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world―that of female ascetics in India.
Although renunciation and asceticism in India have received much attention, female asceticism--both historical and contemporary--has not. This is an important work, which makes a significant contribution to this topic