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Vāc (Skt., from vac, ‘speech’). The Hindu goddess of speech, the manifestation of sound. From early Vedic times, reliance on the sacred oral teachings ‘heard’ by the ṛṣis, properly intoned and accented, thrust the folk-divinity Vāc into prominence. In the Tantric tradition she is also celebrated as Para-vāc, Transcendental Speech, the mother of all sacred mantras.

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