deity

Saraswati

Beings

The named Hindu goddess of speech, learning, and the arts. Not Lakshmi as prosperity alone, and not speech as bare word-door.

Also known as Sarasvatī

Vedic tradition

  • Saraswati appears in Vedic tradition.

    The Ṛgveda hymns Sarasvatī as a mighty river and as a goddess of speech and rite — poured praise beside the waters. A named Vedic being in that corpus, not the later arts-and-learning icon alone and not Gaṅgā as a second river id.

    from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.