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"You are the mother of words in this [world]…": O Vāgvādinī! It is her nature to cause speech, the organ of speech, to sound (vad-); thus she is "Vāgvādinī"; it is a form of address in that sense. Likewise: O Sarasvatī! "In this world", which consists of words and their referents. "You are addressed" by the wise as "the mother of words" because of having evolved through the stages of Parā, Paśyantī, and so forth into the nature of the fifty phonemes, and because all words characterized as the Vedas and so forth