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Sarasvati was regarded as the mightiest and the noblest 162 among the Rgvedic rivers. Although as Keith says, "it is perhaps
doubtful whether the rivers can claim to be regarded as among
the great gods of the RV,
24 nevertheless their importance in
the minds of the Rgvedic Aryans was great enough to find them
personalised and anthropomorphised beyond doubt and consequently
deified. The divinity of the waters and the rivers is mentioned
25 in several places in the RV. And this divinity is most marked in
the case of Sarasvati. To the Rgvedic mind, Sarasvati is by far
26 the greatest of rivers, and this notion of her superiority to all
other streams must be regarded more as due to an early veneration
of water (saras, of. section on Apah) going back perhaps even to
27 Indo-Iranian times of. Avestan Haraquaiti, rather than to the
importance of the Indian river so-called mentioned beside the
28 Sarayu and the Sindhu and beside the Dreadvati elsewhere in the
29 Rgveda. This surmise is strengthened by the fact that in one place
at least Sarasvati is styled Sindhu. Thus as a river-goddess she
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is more clearly anthropomorphised and deified than all other such
goddesses, and it is explicitly stated that she surpasses the latter
24 Op. Cit., Vol. I, p. 172.
25 apah devin 10.104.8, 109.1, devih ... nadyas 7.50.4, etc.
26 of. Deshmukh, op.cit., p. 294.
27 RV
Gordon V. Childe, "The Aryans : A study of Indo-European
origins, " London, 1926, p. 33, and Keith, op. cit., Vol. I,p. 173.
28 X
222 29
30 64.9.
RV III: 23.4.
RV VII.95.1.
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