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Brahma (WITH CONSORT SARASVATI avatar)

WITH CONSORT SARASVATI avatar, or incarnation, that his services tical reasoning; but throughout their will be put in requisition, when this world is to undergo total annihilation.

Meanwhile, however, the other deities, Vishnu and Siva, are constantly engaged in their respective duties of preservation and destruction; and the Hindus lavish chiefly their adoration upon those divinities from whom they expect to derive immediate advantage.

In the mythological poems, and in sculpture, Brahma Brahma is is represented with four heads, or rather faces, and holding in his four hands a manuscript book containing a portion of the Vedas, a pot for holding water, a rosary, and a sacrificial spoon. In the sculptures of the cave temple of Elephanta, he is represented sitting on a lotus, supported by five swans or geese.