Saraswati

yaa kundendu tushhaar haara dhavalaa

yaa shubhravastraavR^itaa .

yA vINaavarada.nDa ma.nDitakaraa

yaa shvetapadmaasanaa

Salutations to the supreme Goddess Saraswati...whose face is fair as a jasmine flower, luminiscient like the moon and delicate as a snow flake ; who is dressed in brilliant white (shubhra-) garments (vastraA-). She holds the musical instrument (vINA-) in her hands to bestow boons (varada.nDa-) to her disciples as she sits on her white (shveta-) lotus (padma-) throne (aasanA-).