Ahalya
![A painting of a young fair woman clad in a white sari with a red border stands, leaning on a tree, as she moves her left hand through her long black hair and holds a flower basket in her outstretched right hand.](/Images/godic/202412/14/Ahalya4443.jpg")
![Raja Ravi Varma's Ahalya Indravalokan: Ahalya plucks flowers as Indra (top right corner), astride his flying horse, comes to visit her.](/Images/godic/202412/14/Ahalya_Indravalokan4443.jpg")
![Gautama cursed his wife Ahalya for allowing Indra into her hermitage](/Images/godic/202412/14/Gautama_cursed_his_wife_Ahalya_for_allowing_Indra_into_her_hermitage4443.jpg")
![Ahalya offering fruits and flowers to Rama, her saviour, in a 5th-century CE stone sculpture from Deogah, currently in the National Museum, New Delhi](/Images/godic/202412/14/Stone_sculpt_2_NMND-104443.JPG")
In Hindu mythology, Ahalya (Sanskrit:अहल्या, IAST Ahalyā), also known as Ahilya, is the wife of the sage Gautama Maharishi. Many Hindu scriptures say that she was seduced by Indra (the king of gods), cursed by her husband for infidelity, and liberated from the curse by Rama (an avatar of the god Vishnu).