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This article is about the Sanskrit word. For other meanings see VAC.

Vak or Vac IPA (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.

See also

Reference

  • Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (ISBN 0500510881) by Anna Dhallapiccola

Further reading

  • Hindu Goddesses:



    Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions
    (ISBN 8120803795) by David Kinsley


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