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is clad in white clothes. She is decorated with pear! necklaces. She has four hands carrying ankusa, akşasutra, păsa and book. Her Jatāmukuţa is decorated with crescent
moon. Her face is like full moon and she is having three
eyes. She wears golden anklets.
Pancharatrāgāma in its kriyāpada states the
characteristics of Vägi svari, another form of Sarasvati."
She is also white in colour, seated on white lotus.
She
wears Jaţāmukuţa. Her ears are decorated with ratna kundalas. She uses vajñopavita and pearl-garlands. She is having three eyes and four hands. She carries in her hand a stylus probably for the purpose of writing and a book, akşamālā and Kamandalu.
Hemadrico in his work Chaturavargachintamani, also
refers about the four-armed image of Sarasvati. It mentions
that rosary, book, Viņā and a Kamandalu should be held in her four hands.
The Mānsara Grantha? states that Sarasvati Isk, seated on Pacmā sana. She is of white colour, having fourhands and two-eyes. She has karandamukuta, Kesabandha, ratnakundala, Padmahāra, nupura.
sri Tatvanidhi
in its description of Sarasvati
follows the mārkendeya Purana and describes her as Vişnurupini. Therefore, she has Garuda as her mount and holds in her hands the emblems of visnu such as sankha, chakra, Gadā and her fourth hand is usually in abnaya
mudra.
In other place of the same text, Sarasvati has
