The Scholar Who Found Living Water at Mukti

In 1878, Pandita Ramabai stood before the scholars of Calcutta — the first woman in India to earn the title "Pandita," a Sanskrit scholar of the highest order. She had memorized eighteen thousand verses of Hindu scripture. Yet for all her learning, Ramabai carried an unquenchable thirst. Her parents had starved to death during a famine. Her husband died just nineteen months after their wedding, leaving her a twenty-three-year-old widow with an infant daughter.…