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- 222 49 with these emblems is in the provincial Museum, Lucknow, but
she is shown as seated on a peacock as her vehicle.
LAKSMI
50 Lakami is described by Visnudharmottara Chapter 82 as
the mother of the whole world and the wife of Lord Visnu.
Laksmi is a popular symbol of beauty and prosperity. She is
the daughter of the ocean, depicted every whereas a beautiful
woman standing in a lotus pond and bathed with heavenly waters
by two or four elephants, holding inverted jars in their trunks.
The worship of Lakami as the goddess of prosperity became
invariably popular. She, the goddess 'par excellence' is
depicted on the reverse of the gold coins of the Guptas.
According to the Vianudharmottara, she is matchless in
beauty (hupenapratima bhuvi). When depicted with Hari (Visnu)
she has two hands, carries lotus in her hand and is adorned with
all sorts of ornaments.
"If depicted separately she should have four hands and
seated on a beautiful Simhasana, on which a lotus with beautiful
pericarp and eight petals should be made. On this she sits like
Vinayaka. Her right hand should hold a lotus with a big stalk
and her left hand, a charming nectar pot. The other two hands
should carry a Hilva and a conch. Behind her back there should
be a pair of elephants bending down the pots as if in the act
of pouring."
Such a figure of caja-Laksmi is known in the art of