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Sarasvati in the form of Nat
Keywords :
| Site common name | Manuha |
|---|---|
| Type of artwork | Sculpture |
| Village | Myinkaba |
| Province/City | Bagan |
| State | Mandalay |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : 21.153056 Long : 94.859167 |
| Period | Historical Period |
|---|---|
| Art period | The present time |
| Age | 26 century BE. |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Sect | Theravada |
| Religion and belief | Sarassavati, the goddess of knowledge in Hinduism, has become the guardian of Buddhism knowledge in Myanmar. This shows how Hinduism was absorbed by Buddhism, which was a common thing in the Southeast Asia. |
| Related artwork | The iconography of Sarassavati in Myanmar is represented by her riding a swan, the same mouth with the goddess in Hinduism. However, she usually hols a footed-tray having the three scriptures on top including Winaipitaka, Suttapitaka and Aphithamapitaka. It can be seen that Sarassavati is still related to “books”, which is similar to the same goddess in Hinduism |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
|---|---|
| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2015-07-00 |
| Record creator | Chedha Tingsanchali |
