Lakshmi
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| Lakshmi | |
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Raja Ravi Varma's Gaja Lakshmi
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| Goddess of Wealth, Fortune and Prosperity | |
| Affiliation | Devi, Tridevi |
| Abode | Vaikuntha[1] |
| Consort | Vishnu |
| Mount | Elephant, owl[2] |
Lakshmi is the goddess of money, wisdom and good luck in Hinduism. She is the wife of the Hindu god Vishnu. Most Hindus pray to her on Diwali, which is a festival in India.
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) who are usually married to Vishnu's avatars:
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Further reading[change | change source]
- 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
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- ↑ George M. Williams (2008). Handbook of Hindu Mythology. Oxford University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-19-533261-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=N7LOZfwCDpEC.
- ↑ Laura Amazzone (2012). Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power. University Press of America. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-0-7618-5314-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=PM_TNDu8NHUC&pg=PA103.
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