Vedic Mythology c5.s3.8

c5.s3.8

Though there is nothing to show distinctly (cp. 7, 35¹¹) that Sarasvatī is ever anything more, in the RV. than a river goddess, we find her identified in the Brāhmaṇas (ŚB. 3, 9, 17; AB. 3, 1¹⁰), with Vāc, Speech, and in post-Vedic mythology she has become goddess of eloquence and wisdom, invoked as a muse and regarded as the wife of Brahmā⁸. The transition from the older to the later conception is perhaps to be found in passages like VS. 19, 12 quoted above.