Saraswati — Knowledge, Music, Flowing Wisdom

Saraswati is the Vagdevi, goddess of Vac (sacred speech), vidya (knowledge), and sangita (music), invoked at the opening of all learning. The Rigveda (6.61) hymns her as the great river of wisdom, and she is the shakti of Brahma — without her flowing presence, creation would remain unvoiced. Seated upon a shveta-padma (white lotus), bearing the veena, pustaka (book of Vedas), mala, and kamandalu, she embodies the four streams of learning: the arts, sciences, crafts, and spiritual knowledge.

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