Saraswati
- Saraswati is mostly worshipped for knowledge and education(learning and wisdom).
- She has one face and two hands holding vina -a stringed instrument and a book.
- Her legs are crossed and slightly raised and the vina is placed on her lap.
- She is white in colour,seated on a simply drawn large white lotus.
- Her legs are drawn up in an unusual cross ankled posture with her knees raised,presumably a posture for musical performance.
- She is popular with Buddhist ,Hindus and jains as well.
- The Buddhists regardnher as one of the twenty one emanations of the goddess Tara.
- It is said that she will help his disciples to increase wisdom and eloquence. Those who forget the meaning of sentences will immediately get her help in remembering.
- She is usually seated on a lotus seat with one leg pendent,playing vina.
- Since she is primarily associated with Brahma,her vehicle is a swan.
- when she is depicted in four arms form,she holds a book,a vina ,a rosary and a lotus.
- Saraswati is the goddess of learning ,wisdom and music.
- #Her popularity spreads far beyond the borders of India to Tibet,China,Korea and Japan.
- #Her ornaments are simple and restrained ,but a narrow,dark green scarf creates a flurry of movement around the figure.It floats in an arc behind her slightly titled head,then winds around her arms and drifts off in a circular maze to left and right.
- The harmony of the worldly and the divine seems to express the Buddhist belief that the ordinary and the transcendent(surpassing),samsara and nirvana,are one beautifully balanced reality.
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