Lakshmi

Lakshmi
Mother Goddess, Goddess of Fortune, Wealth, Love, Prosperity, Joy, Beauty and Maya
Member of Tridevi
Raja Ravi Varma's Gaja Lakshmi
Other names	Sri, Narayani, Bhagavati, Padma, Kamala, Vaishnavi
Affiliation	Devi,Adi parashakti,Tridevi, Ashta Lakshmi, Durga
Abode	Vaikuntha, Manidvipa
Mantra	।।ॐ श्रीं श्रियें नमः ।।
Symbols	Padma (Lotus), gold, coins, elephants
Mount	Owl and Elephant
Festivals	Diwali (Lakshmi Puja), Navratri, Sharad Purnima, Varalakshmi Vratam
Personal information
Consort	Vishnu
Children	kamdeva
Siblings	Jyestha or Alakshmi

Lakshmi is the goddess of money, wisdom and good luck in Hinduism. Most Hindus pray to her on Diwali, which is a festival in India. She is regarded as an equivalent goddess of Emoinu, her Meitei counterpart.

Lakshmi has four arms, fair skin and sits on a lotus flower and is normally surrounded by elephants. She is covered in jewellery.

She also has several avatars (means a god coming to the earth in the form of a human being or in any other form). Her husband is the Hindu god Vishnu but her other avatars are usually married to Vishnu's avatars:

• Sita, wife of Rama
• Radha, the lover, and Rukmini, the first wife and queen of Krishna

Related pages

• Hindu Goddess

Further reading

• Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions (ISBN 81-208-0379-5) by David Kinsley
• Lakshmi Puja and Thousand Names (ISBN 1-887472-84-3) by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Other websites

• 108 Aspects of Wealth
• The Online mandir of Mahalakshmi
• Know about Goddess Sri Lakshmi Archived 2008-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Hymns and eulogies on Lakshmi Archived 2006-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Lakshmi Puran