Wallpaper Description:

THE HINDU DIVINE MOTHER, MANIFESTED AS TRIDEVI, THE CONJOINED FORMS OF LAKSHMI, PARVATI AND SARASWATI.

The Tridevi (English: ‘three goddesses’; Sanskrit: त्रिदेवी tridevi) is a concept in Hinduism conjoining the three consorts of the Trimurti (Great Trinity): Saraswati the goddess of learning and arts, cultural fulfillment (consort of Brahmā the creator); Lakshmi the goddess of wealth and fertility, material fulfillment (consort of Vishnu the maintainer or preserver); and Parvati (or in her demon-fighting aspect Durga) the goddess of power and love, spiritual fulfillment (consort of Śiva the destroyer or transformer).

In the Navratri ("nine nights") festival, "the Goddess is worshipped in three forms. During the first three nights, Durga is revered, then Lakshmi on the fourth, fifth and sixth nights, and finally Sarasvati until the ninth night."[1]


In the Vedic system Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती sarasvatī, Benzaiten) is the goddess of knowledge, music and the arts. Saraswati has been identified with the Vedic Saraswati River. She is considered as consort of Brahma, the god of creation. Thus, with the goddesses Lakshmi and Parvati or Durga, she forms the Tridevi ("three goddesses"), who are consorts of the male trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, respectively. Saraswati's children are the Vedas[1], which are the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

Saraswati is also a figure in Mahayana Buddhism, where she first appears in the Golden Radiance Sutra of the late 4th or early 5th Century, a relatively late Mahayana Sutra.[2]