She is the fairest of the Hindu pantheon. In the otherworld, She dances as She plays on Her veena. She is the wife of Brahma and the presiding deity over learning and the fine arts. She is Sarasvati, the Devi of unparalleled beauty and the divine musician, of whose iconography the veena is an indispensable part.
The soft-featured Sarasvati murti that you see on this page is seemingly taken off the walls of an ancient South Indian temple. The iconography as well as the architecture surrounding it, have been reproduced with great skill and patience on the part of the artisan. As a medium, wood demands double the skill and meticulousness as other, more run-of-the-mill media.
This Sarasvati murti is a predominantly monotone composition. Hints of colour in the Devi’s shringar and in the classical musical instrument She cradles in Her hands. Her hip juts out laterally, the right foot is raised in the air; which together make for a dynamic stance.
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