A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1932

c5.1932

The Bhāgavata Purāna recognises her as “the slender and enchanting daughter” of Brahmā, for whom he had a passion, and from whom mankind was produced, that is the female Virāj. (See Virāj and Sata-rūpa.) Saraswatī, as wife of Brahmā and goddess of wisdom, represents perhaps the union of power and intelligence which was supposed to operate in the work of creation. According to the Padma Purāna, Vāch was daughter of Daksha, wife of Kasyapa, and mother of the Gandharvas and Apsarases.