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Encyclopedia Britannica



SARASUATI

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 205 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SARASUATI , in early Hindu
mythology
 , a river-goddess; in later myths the wife of Brahma, goddess of wisdom and science,
mother
  of the Vedas, and inventor of the Devanagari letters. There has been much dispute as to the stream of which she is a personification. Some have identified it with the Avestan river, Haragaiti, in Afghanistan, while others think the
term
  a general one for any
great
  river, and in particular the sacred name for the Indus, Sindhu being the popular one.
Two small but sacred rivers in
India
  are still called Saraswati, one in the Punjab and the other in
Gujarat
 , both of which ultimately lose themselves in the
sand
 . According to one
legend
 , the Punjab river reappears to unite with the
Ganges
  and Jumna at
Allahabad
 . From this river is derived the name of the Sarswat Brahmans, the most numerous and influential of the priestly class in the Punjab, with whom the Gaur Sarswats or Shenvis of the Konkan claim connexion.


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