Saraswathi Ashtottara Shatanamvali is dedicated
for the deity Saraswathi. Deity
Saraswathi is venerated as the goddess of art, music, melody, think, speech, knowledge,
rhetoric, articulacy, innovative work. In Rigveda she is said as the "possessor
of knowledge ", "the best of mothers", "of the rivers", "of the deities".
