He has written a book titled 'Kongu mandala sathakam' in which he has answered this question. Kongu mandala is the present Coimbatore region of Tamilnadu, India. This sathakam consists of one hundred verses that give the glory of this famous region.
In verse no 65 the poet gives a real story that has happened in Sangagiri, a small city in the Kongu area.
Once there lived a great poet by the name of Emperuman. He has composed a great work called 'Takkai Isai Ramayanam" His name and fame was spread throughout the far-off land and many poets were became his friends.
They used to come to Karamega kavignar's house for useful literary debate.
Once as usual some scholars came to his house. But the poet was not there as he was away to complete an urgent task.
His wife Poongothai, by name, was very intelligent and clever. As per the practice of the olden days, she kept herself inside the house and the scholars sat on the small frontal area of the house. They started chatting.
During their talk, one poet said casually that even though women are learned one can not expect them to be mature. The other one said the women, in general, are not at all intelligent and clever. The third one said they are meant only for cooking and bringing up the children.
Poongothai who was inside the front hall of the house listened to all this debate.
All these points were heard by Poongothai. Immediately she has written a poem in a Venba format, a kind of prosody in Tamil, in a small palm leaf and sent it to the debating geniuses through a small child.
The poem written by her was read out loudly. It said, " In fact, only females are more mature and males are less intelligent and not at all that much clever. Can't you realize, oh, a woman only understands once she conceives? But no man under the earth could understand ever whether he has given birth to a boy or girl."
All the poets were very much shocked to see this meaningful poem. This poem gave a great insight to all of them.
Suddenly all of them burst into the hall and prostrated before Poongothai and apologized. They beg her to pardon them.
At the very moment the great poet, Poongothai's husband entered the house and was bewildered to see all of his friends were at the feet of his wife.
He learned what had happened.
Everybody praised both the husband and wife and the news spread like wildfire.
The King also heard this incident and he called on the poet and prostrated before Poongoathai.
Poongothai thus became very famous and the very difficult question was thus answered fittingly.
A classic work in Tamil called ' Neeti Venba' in one of its verses (verse no 30) defines a perfect woman thus:
She will be beautiful like gold. She will have patience like the earth. She who has beautiful breasts will give sexual satisfaction in the bed to her husband like a prostitute and she will help her husband like a learned minister at all times.
True, Women are great, more intelligent, and cleverer than men!
Any objection?!
Santhanam Nagarajan has written more than five thousand articles in Tamil and English. He has published 61 digital books so far. His articles on Mantras, Tantras, Science, and Hinduism are being read by thousands worldwide. He has appeared in more than 130 TV programs. More than 145 articles have been published in
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