Sarasvati

English

Alternative forms

• Saraswati

Etymology

From Sanskrit सरस्वती (sárasvatī).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sarasvati

1. The Hindu goddess of knowledge and the arts.
2. A legendary river in the Rigveda.
3. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

Translations

the Hindu goddess

Assamese: সৰস্বতী (xorossoti) Bengali: সরস্বতী (bn) (śorośśoti) Burmese: သူရဿတီ (my) (sura.ssa.ti) Chinese: Mandarin: 辯才天女 / 辩才天女 (Biàncáitiānnǚ) Czech: Sarasvatí f Gujarati: સરસ્વતી f (sarasvatī) Hindi: सरस्वती (hi) f (sarasvatī) Indonesian: Saraswati Japanese: サラスヴァティー (Sarasubatī), 弁才天 (ja) (べんざいてん Benzaiten) Kannada: ಸರಸ್ವತಿ (kn) (sarasvati) Korean: 변재천 (Byeonjaecheon) Malayalam: സരസ്വതി (ml) (sarasvati) Marathi: सरस्वती f (sarasvatī) Punjabi: ਸਰਸਵਤੀ (pa) f (sarasavatī) Sanskrit: सरस्वती (sa) f (sarasvatī) Spanish: Sarasvati f Tamil: சரஸ்வதி (carasvati) Telugu: సరస్వతీ (sarasvatī) Tibetan: དབྱངས་ཅན (dbyangs can), དབྱངས་ཅན་མ (dbyangs can ma), དབྱངས་ཅན་སྒྲོལ་མ (dbyangs can sgrol ma) Urdu: سرسوتی f Vietnamese: 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

• Sarasvati on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Saraswati River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia