BIGpedia.com - Vac - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online
encyclopedia search

Vac

Vak or Vac IPA [va:c] (stem vāc-, nominative vāk) is the Sanskrit word for "speech", "voice", "talk", or "language".

Personified, Vak is a goddess, most frequently she is identified with Bharati or Sarasvati, the goddess of speech. In the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajapati and married to him; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra.



The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License.
How to see transparent copy

01-04-2007 01:21:04