A wandering ascetic and yogini who, in the Mahabharata, enters King Janaka's body through yogic power to challenge his claims of enlightenment.
महाभारत काल · Mahabharata era
The Mahabharata's Shanti Parva describes Sulabha, a renunciate skilled in yoga and philosophical debate, traveling to test Janaka's reputation for wisdom, entering his own body through her yogic mastery to speak with him as an equal, unconstrained by ordinary social convention between a wandering woman and a king.
Her closely argued rebuttal of Janaka's claims to liberation, delivered in the epic's own words, stands as one of the Mahabharata's most sophisticated philosophical passages on the nature of true moksha as opposed to its outward appearance.