Brahma Purana (critical study)
by Surabhi H. Trivedi | 1960 | 254,628 words
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana鈥攐ne of the eighteen major Puranas. This text occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana. It also includes a lingu...
30. Description of Saraswati
From being a river goddess in the RV. she became the goddess of wisdom and eloquence and as such she is most frequently invoked by the poets of classical Sanskrit literature. She has been identified with vac 'speech' and as such she is the wife of Brahma. The Brahma Purana relates that as Saraswati secretly enjoyed with Pururava; and had a son Sarasvata by him, When lord Brahma came to know about this he cursed her to be a river but on being requested by her, the curse was modified that she would be seen at some places and would not be seen at other places. This is the reason why Saraswati disappears a in many places. But the Brahma-purana calls her as the daughter of Brahma and divine river (A.101). Once 294 ERE, Vol. II, P. 808.
624 the gods played fraud with Gandharvas by taking from them Soma in exchange of Saraswati and afterwards took away her too.295 She is regarded as the guardian deity by the people of Kasmira,