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This print from the Ravi Varma Press derived from a painting by Raja Ravi Varma follows the iconographic description of Saraswati as found in the 50th chapter of the Agni Purana. She is described in the Agni Purana as being attired in white and playing the Veena with two arms and holding an aksha-mala (a string of pearls) and a pustaka (book ...
Yellow is Basant panchami color. Saraswati is the goddess of knowledge, learning, arts and music in the Hindu traditions. Date: 4 February 2014, 01:28: Source: Lakshmi Figure for Vasant Panchami Festival - Kolkata - India - 01: Author: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada
Bionten, "goddess of beautiful sounds"), [129] and 妙音天 (Ch. Miàoyīntiān; Jp. Myōonten, "goddess of wonderful sounds" [130]). [131] Here, Sarasvati is portrayed with two arms holding a veena and situated between Narayana's consort Narayani and Skanda (shown riding on a peacock).
Matangi is regarded as a Tantric form of Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge and the arts of mainstream Hinduism, with whom she shares many traits. Both embody music and are depicted playing the veena. They are also both said to be the Nada (sound or energy) that flows through the Nadi channels in the body through which life force flows. Both ...
Saraswati enthroned, also known as The Goddess Saraswati Enthroned and Saraswati Plays on a Vina, [note 1] is a Deccan painting of the Bijapur school. Dated to about the beginning of the 17th century, the painting was commissioned in the Bijapur Sultanate during the reign of Ibrahim Adil Shah II .
Saraswati is the goddess of learning, arts, and music, as well as the consort of Brahma, the creator. [ 4 ] Lakshmi is the goddess of fortune, wealth, fertility, auspiciousness, light, and material and spiritual fulfillment, as well as the consort of Vishnu , the maintainer or preserver. [ 5 ]
The goddess is also regarded to be the power that resides within all poetry and writing. She is the consort of the creator deity, Brahma. She is represented as a graceful figure, donning white, and traditionally depicted with the veena ( vīṇā ), rosary ( akṣamālā ), water-pot ( kamaṇḍalu ) and book ( pustaka ).
The deity for arts, music, poetry, speech, culture, and learning is goddess Saraswati in the Hindu tradition. [131] Baumer states that the resulting Sanskrit Theater has its origins in the Vedas, stemming from three principles: “The cosmic man (purusha), the self (atman), and the universal being (brahman)". [ 132 ]