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Saraswathi, the Goddess of arts, is always identified with Veena. Any interesting news about Veena&its Vidwans?

Veena is one of the three celestial musical instruments, having references from vedic times (along with Flute and Mridangam). The fact that Saraswathi, the Goddess of arts, is always identified with Veena, only symbolises that Music (synonymous with Veena) has primary importance among all forms of fine arts.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    The veena has a recorded history that dates back to the Vedic period (approximately 1500 BCE)

    In ancient times, the tone vibrating from the hunter's bow string when he shot an arrow was known as the Vil Yazh. The Jya ghosha (musical sound of the bow string) is referred to in the ancient Atharvaveda. Eventually, the archer's bow paved the way for the musical bow. Twisted bark, strands of grass and grass root, vegetable fibre and animal gut were used to create the first strings. Over the veena's evolution and modifications, more particular names were used to help distinguish the instruments that followed. The word veena in India was a term originally used to generally denote "stringed instrument", and included many variations that would be either plucked, bowed or struck for sound

    "The current form of the Saraswati veena with 24 fixed frets evolved in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, during the reign of Raghunath Nayak and it is for this reason sometimes called the Tanjore veena, or the Raghunatha veena. Prior to his time, the number of frets on the veena were less and also movable." - Padmabhooshan Prof. P. Sambamurthy, musicologist.

    The Vedic sage Yajnavalkya speaks of the greatness of the Veena in the following verse: "One who is skilled in Veena play, one who is an expert in the varieties of srutis (quarter tones) and one who is proficient in tala attain salvation without effort."

    Many references to the veena are made in old Sanskrit and Tamil literature, and musical compositions. Examples include poet Kalidasa's epic Sanskrit poem Kumarasambhava, as well as "veena venu mridanga vAdhya rasikAm" in Meenakshi Pancharathnam, "mAsil veeNaiyum mAlai madhiyamum" Thevaram by Appar.

    Each physical portion of the veena is said to be the seat in which subtle aspects of various gods and goddesses reside in Hinduism. The instrument's neck is Shiva, the strings constitute his consort, Parvati. The bridge is Lakshmi, the secondary gourd is Brahma, the dragon head Vishnu. And upon the resonating body is Saraswati. "Thus, the veena is the abode of divinity and the source of all happiness."- R. Rangaramanuja Ayyangar

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Hindu gods & godesses

    Saraswati is the daughter of Brahma - right

    He married her - right

    Morality ???

    Where were all these gods when humanity was made to suffer

    when millions of low caste people were treated worse than animals , ostracized , lived in denial.

    So you forgot us and we forget your gods

    Buddha is the only Lord

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