Godess Saraswati

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temple in the hill. The reference is no doubt to the hill at Maihar, in which inscribed slabs are found referring to one Devadhara building, a temple, for the Goddess Sarasvati in the memory of his son. This reference obviates the fact that Goddess Sārada of Maihar was originally installed in the hill.
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An Inscription is noticed by D.Mitra from a damaged stone sculpture from Wari representing an eight or ten-armed 75 images. The object of the inscription is to record the construction of an image by a person named Padmagiri. The image is stated to have been made (for installation) in the brick built house of one Padmagiri preceptor. The Pakva-Pura as mentioned in inscription seems actually to have been a temple built by a person in question (the word Bhavana, which is a synonym of Pura) is sometimes) used in the sense of a temple). Here the inscription refers to the Goddess as Sarasvati and interestingly have eight or ten-armé, rare in
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eastern India.
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Besides, there are also references about installation
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of Sarasvati images. An fragmentary epigraph on the east wall of third Präkāra in the Ranganath Temple of Srirangam in Trichinepaly makes a mention of a Sarasvati bhandara library. It also records that in an auxillary Mandapa, near the library provision was approximately made for the installation and worship of three presiding deities of learning i.e. Hyagriva, Sarasvati and Vyasa-Bhagavan. One Gurgi stone Inscription
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of Kokalladeva II of 10th century A.D. describes that one