In a 2024 piece, titled 'How Saraswati Reached Japan', writer Devdutt Pattanaik highlighted how Benzaiten has been linked to Goddess Saraswati. He wrote, “The Saraswati of Japan is worshipped ...
Or that Lord Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, is revered as Kangiten in Japanese Buddhism and Maa Saraswati, the Hindu Goddess of knowledge and arts, is known as Benzaiten in Japanese Buddhism?