The word 'bitch' has a very sharp biting negative connotation in common parlance. It refers to a woman of loose morals, a treacherous woman, a manipulative woman. However, increasingly the word has been re-appropriated by women and is being seen as a word of power, with women addressing each other as 'bitches', as part of a global feminist sisterhood, refusing to be domesticated, determined to 'bark' back at injustice and oppression.

That being said, one hesitates to refer to Sarama as the Vedic bitch and prefers to refer to her as the Vedic she-dog, first of female dogs, or even the primal doggess.