NAME COLLECTION
Names of Saraswati
Names of the goddess Saraswati from the Amarakośa and the dictionary entries that call a word a name of Sarasvatī.
This collection follows names to their sources. It describes where a name comes from, not who uses it.
Names recorded in Indian use
Vāṇī
Monier-Williams: the goddess of speech, Sarasvatī (R.; BrahmaP.)
Amarakośa 1.6.352
Śāradā
Monier-Williams: N. of a Sarasvatī (Śukas.)
Name page →Sāvitrī
Monier-Williams: also 'of the Sarasvatī, R.'; primarily the Sāvitrī of the Mahābhārata and the Sāvitrī verse
Name page →Sarasvatī
Monier-Williams: N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (also a river, held to be a goddess in the Rigveda)
Amarakośa 1.6.352
Name page →Bhāratī
Monier-Williams: a deity invoked with Ilā and Sarasvatī in the Rigveda; later speech/Sarasvatī
Amarakośa 1.6.352
Name page →Medhā
Monier-Williams: a form of Sarasvatī, W.; also 'intelligence'
Bhāṣā
language, speech; Monier-Williams: also: N. of Sarasvatī (L.)
Amarakośa 1.6.352
Other names in the sources
These words are named in the sources as names of the deity. Their listing here does not say that they are used as given names.
Brāhmī
Monier-Williams: speech or the goddess of speech (= Sarasvatī), MBh. i
Amarakośa 1.6.352
Vāgdevī
goddess of speech; Sarasvatī
Vāgīśvarī
mistress of speech; Monier-Williams: Sarasvatī (Cat.)
Mahāśvetā
Monier-Williams: of Sarasvatī (L.)
Vāc
speech personified (Monier-Williams:)