Śivasaṃhitā 1.82

The third face of cosmic potency completes the divine triad. Durgā arises from tamas, Lakṣmī from sattva, and now Sarasvatī arises from rajas—the quality of activity, passion, creation. Sarasvatī is the goddess of language, knowledge, and the arts: she arises precisely from the dynamic energy that moves creation. It is not coincidental that the creator Brahmā is her consort.

Rajoguṇādhikā (in which rajas predominates, with excess of the guṇa of activity) describes the energetic texture from which Sarasvatī emerges. Rajas is the principle of activity, passion, and creation in Sāṃkhya philosophy. Sarasvatī jñeyā (who must be known as) indicates that this is a deep, not superficial, identity. The goddess of knowledge is the very dynamic potency of the Absolute.

The triad Durgā-Lakṣmī-Sarasvatī corresponds to the cosmic triad tamas-sattva-rajas and to the functions of destruction, preservation, and creation. This equivalence between guṇa and goddesses appears in the Devī Māhātmya and in Tantric Śāktism. The Śivasaṃhitā integrates it into its cosmology to show that the deities of the Hindu pantheon are not independent entities but expressions of the same potency that generates the universe.