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Sarasvati, She-Who-Flows-Eloquently-Onward.
S1R1SV1TE
Alternate meaning: Rich-in-Pools.
[to Whom the twenty-ninth day of December, day 363, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Hindustani: A river in north west India (only its almost dried-up river-bed remains).
Linguistic Note: the name is derived from Sanskrit saras, to flow, (from the root sr, to flow), a synonym of water.
Description: Goddess of fertility, procreation and purification; Eponym of the river by that name; "Best Mother, Best of Rivers, Best of Goddesses"; Tutelary deity of writers and poets.
In parts of Mysore She is regarded as the Deity Who presides over the sixty-four arts. All Who bathe in Her waters and sacrifice on Her banks are cleansed of all impurity.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Sarasvati.
To Whom Sacred: flowers; fruit; incense (in libraries She is worshipped with offerings of these things).
Male Associates: son, Sarasvata. Consorts, Visnu, Brahma (sometimes said to be Her father), Manu or Dharma, etc. Associated with Sarasvat.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- She was adopted in Japan with the name Benzai-Tennyo, Goddess-of-the-Gift-of-Eloquence.
- Bhairavi, The-Terrible, is also called Sarasvati, She-Who-Flows-Eloquently-Onward.
- In one of the Apri hymns She is associated with Bharati, ---- Who is linked with Ida, Benediction.
- Title, Brahmani, All-Pervading-Self-Existing-Power. {at the moment see Vac, Creative-Word, perhaps to be changed}.
- The Tibetian form of Her name is dByangs-can-ma, ----, below.
- Title,
Dhanesvari
, ----.
- One of the Gnas, Women, Who are linked with Vac, Creative-Word.
- She is associated (in one of the Apri hymns) with Ila, ---- , Who is linked with Ida, Benediction.
- Title, Jagad-Dhatri, Sustainer-of-the-World, Who is linked with Durga, Inaccessible-One.
- Title, Kamadhenu, Wish-Fulfilling-Milch-Cow, Who is linked with Norse Authumla, Nourisher.
- Sometimes Mahalaksmi, Great-Sign, (Who is linked with Urmya, ----), is identified with Her.
- {Surely Sarasvati, She-Who-Flows-Eloquently-Onward, is also called Mahasarasvati, Great-Sarasvati, Who is linked with Mahavidya, She-of-Great-Knowledge.}
- Epithet, Mahasveta, Dazzling-White, Who is linked with Vac, Creative-Word.
- Title, Mahavidya, She-of-Great-Knowledge.
- See also Prajnaparamita, Wisdom-of-the-Yonder-Shore.
- Title, Sarada, Swift-One, below.
- Also called, by Hindu and Buddist tantrists,
Vagisvara
, ----.
- She is identified with Vac, Creative-Word.
- Title,
Vijagarbha
, ----.
Source: Olschak MAAT 152; Stutley HDH 269, 315.
dByangs-can-ma, ----.
Y*ÑS-C*N-M*
Geography/Culture: Tibet: Mahayana Buddhist.
Description: Goddess of Melodic Speech; She with the Lovely Voice; Matron of wisdom.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Tibetian name for Sarasvati, She-Who-Flows-Eloquently-Onward.
- Also called
sGra-dByangs-lHa-mo
, D*-Y*ÑS-M0, Goddess-of-Melodic-Speech.
Source: Olschak MAAT 152.
Sarada, Swift-One.
S*R1D*
Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Goddess of the river.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- {Could this be a variant of Narmada, ? Probably not see Linguistic note}
- A title of Sarasvati, Rich-in-Pools.
Source: Stutley HDH 269.
worked on: May 1995; July 1991; July 1990.
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