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✨Story of Brahma and ma Saraswati✨
Are they Husband-wife? Father-daughter or something else?
Long thread but you'll understand it in one go. Please continue till end.

The claim that people make is: - In the Vedas & Puranas it is written that " Brahma ji married his own daughter Saraswati . For this they give references from Rigveda Samhita ( 10.61.5-7 ) Aitareya Brahmana ( 3.9.13-33 ) , SrimadBhagvatam(7.11) , Matsya purana and various others

Here is the story from SrimadBhagvatam

इतिहासपुराणाभ्यां वेदं समुपबृंहयेत् ।। ( Mahabharta 1-1-293 ) one has to decode and expand the meaning of Vedas through the Help of Puranas . We are going to look at this story in the light of Vedas , puranas and traditional Acharyas .

#भविष्यपुराण has very clear statement on this:-
सत्त्वभूता च भगिनी रजोभूता च गेहिनी । तमोभूता च सा कन्या तस्यै देव्यै नमोनमः ।। ( 2.4. 18. 24 ) The Prakriti consisting of " Tama Guna " is called as " Daughter " and it is stated " Brahma married his daughter ( this prakriti )

What we need to understand is " She is called as Daughter ( दुहिता , सुता ) auxillarly in scriptures just because “ she emerged out of him " or she was created because of him " for creation . It is nowhere written that " from such wife of Brahma ji saraswati was born "

Son of brahma ji , Marichi etc were created for the earth .. For them " यो यस्य उत्पादकः स तस्य पिता ' The reproducer is the father because on earth generally creation happens because of the reproduction but the brahma - saraswati duo was without such creation .

Even after this Brahma g left his body just to insure that no human in future would do the paap by misunderstanding the story . Now we'll look at the scriptural explanations given by traditional acharyas:-

Buddhishts Jains abused Vedas by mocking such stories. Kumaril Bhatt in his commentary of Purva Mimansa Tantravartika 1.3.7 replied:-
Being the protector of the world , the sun is Prajapti ( Term used for brahma ) , it rises behind Usha ( Dawn ) at the time of sunrise+++

that Usha originates from the sun itself , so as a daughter she has been described . In the ( Usha ) he Surya ) puts his red rays as seed , which is treated as a union of female and male .

See this original text from Tantravartika

✨यो ह्येव सविता स प्रजापतिरिति { Shatpath Brahmana 12.3.5.1 }
प्रजापतिर्वै सविता ।। { Tandya BrahmanaChapter 16 }
Which means that Sun is Brahma { Prajapati } .
See what's written in the story of Shrimad Bhagvatam after brahma ji left his body :

See Bhagvatam 3.12.33(img)
We find usha ( dawn ) is his daughter because she is born because of the sun . " The sun went behind Usha and when confronted by his sons he left his body and this body is called Fog . This matches with the Kumarila
*Rays can be termed as sons here*

✨Another explanation
मनो वै ब्रह्मा { Gopath Brahmana 1.2.10 , 2.5.4 } वाग् वै सरस्वती ( Taittariya S 6.1.2)
The मन is Brahma , Voice ( speech ) is called Saraswati.
Speech originates because of the मन That is why these two are described here as father daughter

That's why in The Vedas , similar thing is written :

{ 1 } There is a place of mind (मन) before speech , so whatever is thought from the मन is said to be spoken again .
{2} That Prajapati controlled/ desired the वाक .

*the विवेक senses can be taken as Sons

To keep it very simple : As we all know Shiva - Parvati , Krishna Radha all are shown as Left - right part at the time of creation . Similarly Brahma ji divided himself into two parts one male and female

Conclusion :
@Maa Saraswati is the Wife of Brahma g . She is called “ Daughter " auxillarly ( i ) because Brahma created her and ( ii ) acc to Bhavishya Purana she has Tamas ansh of Prakriti .

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