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Saraswati’s Veena

Origin

Saraswati

Type

Veena

Effects

Grants large amounts of knowledge

Downsides

Can overload the user with information, causing a coma

Activation

Plucking the strings

Collected by

Matthews, J.

Section

AxMu-888

Aisle

Aum-1269

Shelf

88812-1269-378

Date of Collection

June 14, 1945

[Source]


Origin[]

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and learning. She is a part of the trinity of Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati. All the three forms help the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to create, maintain and regenerate-recycle the universe. Many depictions symbolize her with a veena, a plucked string instrument said to represent the arts and knowledge.

Collection[]

This artifact was originally found by Subhas Chandra Bose and was in his cache of artifacts. It was collected by agent John Matthews on June 17th, 1945.

Effects[]

The user’s mind will be filled with vast amounts of knowledge. They will instinctively know things and will require several uses to consciously maintain that information. If overused, the person’s mind will become swamped with facts and will be unable to hold it all, leading to an induced coma state.