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In another instance Markandeya Purāņa states that Gayatri is worshipped in the evening in the form of Sarasvati. Her colour is blue black like visņu. She is having four hands and her eyes are like lotus petals. She carries sankha, chakra, gaḍā in her three hands and shows abhaya mudra in the fourth hand. She is clad in yellow silken cloth after her
body being coated with sandal paste.
She is seated on blue Her vahana is Garuda.
seat. Her form represents Samveda.
She should be carved as riding on the back of Garuda.
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The Bhagavata Purana describes Sarasvati as a consort of Visnu. She sits on the back of a lion. She has four arms, red-eyes, exposed hair and developed and pointed breasts. She wears no garment and her appearance is fierce.
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Sarasvati
According to Braḥad-dharma Purana, an Upa-Purana, possesses Sudhabhända (pot of nectar), Vidya, mudra and akṣamāla. She is richly adorned with various kinds of jewelleries. She is three-eyed.
Besides the Puranas, many silpa and tantra texts also refers to the goddess of learning and her iconography.
The Amusumād-bhedagama and the Pūrvakaraṇāgāma, the two Agama texts have been referred by T.A.Gopinath Rao as containing description of Sarasvati.14 According to Amaumad-bhedigama, white complexioned Sarasvati is seated upon a white lotus and is draped in white clothes. She holds a rosary in her right hand and the other should exhibit the vyākhyāna mucra and the left hands carry respectively a book
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