Sanjay Patel is an illustrator and animator. He has worked in the animation department of various projects, most of them animated films released by Pixar.
Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of learning, wisdom, music, and aesthetics. She is the goddess of speech. She is identified as the inventor of Sanskrit and, appropriately, gives Ganesha the gifts of pen and inks. She is also a patron of the arts and sciences. In Hindu art, Saraswati is usually depicted as a graceful youth wearing a white sari, which symbolises purity. Not being concerned with worldly goods she rarely wears jewellery. She may have a crescent on her forehead and be seated on a lotus flower. Alternatively, she may be shown riding her vehicle (vahana), either a swan or goose. The hands hold items with symbolic meaning — a pustaka (book or script), a mālā (rosary, garland), the lotus (a symbol of spiritual knowledge) and playing a musical instrument (vīnā).
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