There is serenity in the presence of Devi Sarasvati. She wears a saree the color of her snowy skin and is poised upon the back of a milk-white swan which is her Vahana, its form as pristine and gracious as its divine mistress. In her anterior hands (she is Chaturbhujadhari, one possessed of four arms) she holds delicately a veena; in her posterior hands, a rosary and some parchment, respectively. As the wife of Lord Brahma, the deity responsible for creative projection, she is the presiding deity over learning and the fine arts, things which are indispensable to his function. This explains why the iconography of Devi Sarasvati is incomplete without the Veena.
