"Saraswati" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hindoos, the god Nareda is the inventor of the vina, the principal musical instrument of Hindoostan. Saraswati, the consort of Brahma, may be said to be considered as the Minerva of the Hindoos. She is the goddess of music as well as of speech. To her is attributed the invention of the systematic arrangement of the sounds into a musical scale. She is represented seated on a peacock ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller |
