Kavi.
Kavitrī.

Perfect symmetry.

Meanwhile English said:
Poet.
Poetess.

Then quietly deleted the feminine form.

Why?

Because when the word was coined, “poet” was assumed male.
The woman needed a linguistic suffix. A footnote. An exception.

Sanskrit didn’t “add” women later.
It structurally encoded them.

Kavi was never automatically male.
Kavitrī existed in the grammar itself.

Language reveals hierarchy.
Language also reveals civilisational confidence.