Maitreyi (मैत्रेयी) is from the Sanskrit maitrī (friendliness, loving-kindness). **Maitreyi (c. 8th c. BCE)** was the Vedic philosopher and **wife of the sage Yajnavalkya** — when he proposed to renounce the world and divide his wealth between her and his other wife, **she famously asked: "Will this make me immortal?"** — initiating one of the greatest philosophical dialogues in the Upanishads.
Featured in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.
Maitreyi reduces to eight — the number of Upanishadic philosopher.