A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(‘the flowing one’) in the Vedas just a river goddess, she gradually came to represent waters in general with their cosmic symbolism and the association with Vāc and the cosmic mind, eventually becoming the goddess of wisdom and the wife of Brahma. Her mount is mostly a swan, but sometimes a ram, an owl, a parrot or a peacock.
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