Girls wear besanti in celebration of this deity during the Vasant Panchami festival, and in Buddhist traditions she is the yidam consort of Manjushri.
This god is referred to as Yang Chenmo in Tibetan traditions and is equated with the Shinto deity Benten. Girls wear besanti in celebration of this deity during the Vasant Panchami festival, and in Buddhist traditions she is the yidam consort of Manjushri. Sometimes considered the daughter of Shiva and Durga, one story about her says that her main consort grew four different faces in order to observe her dancing around him and then grew a face on top of his head when she floated over him, and she may have been replaced for a time by Gayatri. Depicted holding a veena or stringed instrument and riding Hamsa the swan or sometimes a peacock, FTP, name this Hindu goddess of music and writing who is a rival of Lakshmi and the main consort of Brahma.
This god is referred to as Yang Chenmo in Tibetan traditions and is equated with the Shinto deity Benten.
Sarasvati or Saraswati or Savitri or Vak Devi (accept variants on these names)