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Sarasvati
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English
thumb|Learning, the Arts, Music, and river
thumb|Saraswati Supercluster
Alternative forms
en Saraswati
Etymology
From en sa सरस्वती sárasvatī.
Pronunciation
en /sɐ́.ɾɐs.ʋɐ.tiː/ [s̪ɐ.ɾɐs̪.ʋɐ.t̪iː] [sə.ɾəs.ʋə.t̪iː] InE
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Sarasvati.wav US
Proper noun
en Hinduism The Hindu goddess of eloquence, learning of knowledge and the arts.
en geography The Saraswati river. Arguably,Romila Thapar 2004 Early India: From the origins to AD 1300 University of California Press 978-0-520-24225-8 42 https://archive.org/details/earlyindiafromor00thap/page/42Wilke Annette 2011 Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-018159-3 https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCMe67IGPkC&pg=PA310 of which only a small stream remains as the Ghaggar Riverhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01643-9
en astronomy Saraswati Supercluster
en female Sanskrit used in India.
Translations
the Hindu goddess
Assamese: as সৰস্বতী f xorossoti
Bengali: bn সরস্বতী f śorośśoti
Burmese: my သူရဿတီ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 辯才天女 Biàncáitiānnǚ
Czech: cs Sarasvatí f
German: de Saraswati, de Saravati
Gujarati: gu સરસ્વતી f
Hindi: hi सरस्वती f, hi सरसूती
Indonesian: id Saraswati
Japanese: ja サラスヴァティー Sarasubatī, ja 弁才天 べんざいてん Benzaiten
Kannada: kn ಸರಸ್ವತಿ sarasvati
Korean: ko 변재천 Byeonjaecheon
Malayalam: ml സരസ്വതി
Marathi: mr सरस्वती f
Odia: or ସରସ୍ଵତୀ f
Polish: pl Saraswati f
Punjabi: pa ਸਰਸ੍ਵਤੀ f, pa ਸਰਸਵਤੀ f
Sanskrit: sa सरस्वती f
Spanish: es Sarasvati f
Tamil: ta சரஸ்வதி
Telugu: te సరస్వతీ
Tibetan: bo དབྱངས་ཅན, bo དབྱངས་ཅན་མ, bo དབྱངས་ཅན་སྒྲོལ་མ
Urdu: ur سرسوتی f sarasvatī, sarsūtī
Vietnamese: vi Biện Tài Thiên
References
Puranic Encyclopedia: a comprehensive dictionary with special reference to the epic and Puranic literature, Vettam Mani, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1975, p. 695.
Further reading
Saraswati River
Saraswati Supercluster
en Hindu deities