GODDESS
OF VOICE AND KNOWLEDGE
Sarasvati
is the goddess of learning and knowledge and the wife
of
Brahma, the creator of the world. She is always pictured
as an
extremely beautiful woman with a milk white complexion,
often sitting
on a water lilly and playing a lute. She protects art
and is credited
with the invention of writing. She is also the goddess
of speech, the
power through which knowledge expresses itself in action.