Product Description

Saraswati

Material: Limestone
Style: Bali
Size: Height 67 cm, width 21 cm, depth 21 cm
Order Number: ST21

Background: Saraswati, consort of Brahma, is the Balinese goddess of knowledge, wisdom, and the arts, music, speech and poetry. She is slender, young and beautiful, dressed like a queen, with a crown and jewelry on all her limbs. She rides a goose with pure white feathers.

In one hand she holds a blue water lily, which represents beauty, purity and the flowering of knowledge. In the other is a lontar palm leaf book, which represents literature, wisdom and learning.

She holds a loop of religious beads as a sign of endless religious devotion. In her 4th hand is a rebab, a vertical bowed lute with two strings.

Her day is the last of the Balinese 210 day calendar, when offerings are made to books, and it’s a school holiday. Ironically it’s a day when reading is forbidden.

In Ancient India bathing in the Saraswati River bought renewal, freedom, enlightenment, healing, purity and fertility.