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sarasvatī: Goddess of music, learning, and all knowledge.

sharada: Another name for Saraswati.

devī: Goddess.

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"May Saraswati, the goddess of learning, who is pale like a garland of kunda flowers, the moon or frost, who is dressed in white, whose hands play the lute, who sits on a white lotus flower and is always adored by the gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, protect me by completely removing the dullness of my intellect."  ~ traditional prayer


"You are intelligence, intelligence, intelligence. Your names are memory, resolution, mind, and hymn of praise."  ~ Abhinavagupta Saraswatistotra


"Saraswati appears as a luminous woman of splendid beauty, riding upon a swan. Dressed simply in a white sari, she is the epitome of perfect learning. Her effulgence symbolizes the light of knowledge that destroys the darkness of ignorance. The Vedas are said to be her children, born of her union with the Supreme Lord. She can thus bestow any teaching, material or spiritual, for the Vedas contain the fullness of both."  ~ Krishna Dharma

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