Lakshmi

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. Gajalakshmi

Lakshmi
Mother Goddess, Goddess of Fortune, Wealth, Love, Prosperity, Joy, Beauty and Maya
Member of Tridevi
Gajalakshmi by Raja Ravi Varma
Other names	Sri, Narayani, Bhagavati, Padma, Kamala, Vaishnavi
Affiliation	Devi,Adi parashakti,Tridevi, Ashta Lakshmi, Durga
Abode	Vaikuntha, Manidvipa
Mantra	।।ॐ श्रीं श्रियें नमः ।।
Animals	Elephant
Symbols	Nymphaea, Jnana Mudra Gold
Day	Friday
Mount	Owl
Festivals	Diwali (Lakshmi Puja), Navratri, Sharad Purnima, Varalakshmi Vratam
Personal information
Consort	Vishnu
Siblings	Jyestha or Alakshmi

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 eternal wife and chief consort of Krishna
• Rukmini, the principal wife and first queen consort of Krishna

Related pages

• Hindu Goddess

Further reading

• Kinsley, David R. (1987). Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. ISBN 978-81-208-0379-4.
• Saraswati, Swami Satyananda; Saraswati, Swami Vittalananda; Saraswati, Mata Parvatinanda (2001). Laksmi Puja and Thousand Names. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-887472-84-5.

Other websites

• Maha Lakshmi Purana
• 108 Aspects of Wealth Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
• The Online mandir of Mahalakshmi Archived 2008-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
• 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