Keywords: Indian - Sarasvati - Walters 2550.jpg This sculpture once stood in a niche in a Hindu temple Sarasvati is the name of a river and of a goddess-a goddess who embodies the power of speech of music she is playing the stringed instrument known as the vina and of learning she holds a manuscript in her lower left hand century 10 11 sandstone cm 71 7 56 5 accession number 25 50 218 Benares area India William Wolff New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1969 by purchase Museum purchase 1969 place of origin Benares India Walters Art Museum license Art of India in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Sarasvati in sculpture 10th-century art of India |