Image: Indian - Sarasvati - Walters 2550
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Description: This sculpture once stood in a niche in a Hindu temple. Sarasvati is the name of a river and of a goddess-a goddess who embodies the power of speech, of music (she is playing the stringed instrument known as the "vina"), and of learning (she holds a manuscript in her lower left hand).
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