Sant Bahinabai (1628–1700) endured prolonged domestic violence from an early age after being married off as a toddler to a thirty-year-old widower. The abuse continued even when she was three months pregnant. What makes her life and work extraordinary is that she gave voice to these experiences in her poems, producing what is perhaps the first autobiographical account by a woman in India. Her writings stand among the earliest literary testimonies of domestic violence and contain some of the most powerful critiques of patriarchy in premodern Indian literature. A contemperory and follower of Sant Tuakaram, she has also documented Tukaram's persecution at the hands of the caste-supremacists, which she herself witnessed during her stay in Dehu. Bahinabai also translated the Vajrasuchi Upanishad, an anti-caste Sanskrit text, into Marathi, making her one of the earliest known women translators in India.