SARASWATI – Goddess of knowledge and fine arts 🙏🚩

Saraswati has been identified as the goddess of learning, the deity important to writers, artists, poets and spirit of all fine arts.

Several Shilpa and agama texts have specified the iconic imagery of Saraswati.

Saraswati is portrayed as a beautiful woman with fair complexion, two or four arms. She plays the veena symbolizing music and the fine arts.

When four armed, her emblems are veena, book (as she is representative of learning), and an ‘aksharamala’, the rosary or may be an arrow, mace, spear, discus, conch, bell, plough and a bow or water pot. Her mudra is ‘vyakhyana’, the teaching aspect.

Sarasvati is depicted as the embodiment of dance and music, besides displaying knowledge she is playing on veena and also dancing.

Here is collection of sculptures of Saraswati from Hoysala Temples of Karnataka (12th-13th Century CE)