In our hindu culture ,"Devi Saraswati" or "Mata Saraswati" is considered as "Goddess of Knowledge, Art, Music and Wisdom". She is also known as "Goddess of Speech". The word Saraswati means the elegant.
It is derived from word 'saras' which means "flowing" and 'vati' means "women". Together this word means the flowing water or knowledge who is elegant as a lady or it also has one more meaning the one with plenty of water. There is also a river named as Saraswati and name of River Saraswati is also mentioned in Rigveda.
It is believed that all knowledge which we have is due to presence of Devi Saraswati. She is from one of three major female deities who are known as "Tridevi"- Devi Lakshmi, Devi Parvati and Devi Saraswati.
Devi Saraswati is described as a female deity having four arms, claded in white saree ( which probably represents wisdom),playing veena and sitting on lotus and sometimes she is also decipted sitting on swan and sometimes on peacock. She does not have any weapon in hand. Her two hands holds veena while in other hands she has string of pearls and a book.
Devi Saraswati is wife of Lord Brahma, who is the creator of this world and he is one of the three important deities ( Trideva ). It is believed that Lord Brahma gets his knowledge to create everything in this world from Devi Saraswati.
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Different names of Devi Saraswati:
Names of Devi Saraswati are Mahamaya-The one who envelops the universe with illusion, Varaprada-The merciful one who gives boons, Padmakshi-The lotus eyed one,Padmavaktraga-The one with a lotus like face, Shivanuja-The one who is the sister of Lord Shiva, Pustakabhrita-One who holds a book in her hands, Jnanamudra-The one who shows the symbol of wisdom in her fingers,Kamarupa-The one who assumed different forms as desired, Mahavidya-The one who gives all forms of knowledge,Mahapataka Nashini-One who destroys all sufferings, Mahashraya-One who gives the ultimate refuge to the beings, Malini-One who wears a beautiful garland,Mahotsaha-The most enthusiastic one, Divyanga-One with an auspicious body, Suravandita-One who is adored by the gods, Mahankusha-One who carries a goad,Pita-One with a yellow complexion, Vimala-the blemishless one,Vishwa-The one with a universal form, Vidyunmala-One with a resplendent garland, Chandrika-One with a bright moonlight, Chandravadana-One whose face is resplendent like a moon, Savitri-The ray of Light,Surasa-The most charming one, Divyalankarabhushita-One with adorable ornaments,Vagdevi-The Goddess of speech, Vasudha-One who is the embodiment of earth, Mahabhadra-The most auspicious one, Mahabala-One with a supreme strength, Bharati-The Goddess of Speech,Bhama-The personification of perfection, Brahmi-The consort of Brahma, Brahmajnanaikasadhana-The means to attain wisdom, Saudamini-The one resplendent like lightening, Subhadra-One who is extremely beautiful, Surapujita-One who is fondly worshipped by the gods, Suvasini-One who fills the cosmos with auspiciousness,Vinidra-One who is sleepless, Mahaphala-One who distributes the fruits of actions, Trikalajna-One with a knowledge of past, present and future, Triguna-One who is the embodiment of the three qualities, Shastrarupini-The personification of all knowledge and books, Shubhada-One who bestows auspiciousness, Swaratmika-The one who is at the soul of music and many more.
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Husband of Devi Saraswati :
Lord Brahma, the creator of this world is husband of Devi Saraswati.
Abode :
Satyaloka or Brahmaloka is abode of Devi Saraswati where she resides with Lord Brahma.
Weapons :
Devi Saraswati does not wear any weapon. She hold veena ( a musical instrument ) in her hands and in other hands manuscripts and string of pearls.2
MANTRA:
Mool Mantra for Devi Saraswati :
ॐ ऎं सरस्वत्यै ऎं नमः।
Sampurana Mantra :
ओम ऐं ह्रीं क्लीं महासरस्वती देव्यै नमः।
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Story related to Devi Saraswati :
There are many stories related to Birth of Devi Saraswati, one of them is :
Story related to Birth of Devi Saraswati:
According to this story, it is believed that when Lord Brahma created this universe and living beings he was very happy for his creation. One day Lord Brahma thought that today he should go and see his creations and he went out to see.
But when he came and saw it on the earth, they all seemed colourless, because all those creatures were moving, but because of the absence of speech, everything was very quiet.
So Lord Brahma took out a few drops of water from his Kamandal and threw it in the air and from that Goddess Saraswati was born.
Goddess Saraswati appeared as a beautiful woman with four hands. She had a veena in one hand, a lotus in the other, Vedas or manuscripts in the third, and a blessing posture with the fourth hand.
Goddess Saraswati asked Lord Brahma the reason for revealing her. Lord Brahma said to her that there is no speech, knowledge, art in this world, so you have to give all that to this world.
From that day Devi Saraswati is worshipped as Goddess of Knowledge, art,music and wisdom.
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Festival(GoddessSaraswati Puja):
The day when Goddess Saraswati manifested is celebrated as the birth and descent day of devi Saraswati. We call this day as Vasant Panchmi. On this day we worship Devi Saraswati to get blessed for knowledge and wisdom.
This day is considered as ausipious to start and do important things on this day. It is also considered as the first day of spring.
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