What are the powers of Lakshmi?

The powers of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi include the ability to dispense good fortune.

How is Lakshmi shown in Hindu art?

Lakshmi is often shown in Hindu art as a woman sitting on a lotus flower. She usually holds a water pot and a single blue or pink lotus flower.

Lakshmi

Q: What is Lakshmi the god of?

Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of wealth, good fortune, youth, and beauty.

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Definition

Lakshmi (or Laksmi) is the Hindu goddess of wealth, good fortune, youth, and beauty. She is the wife of the great god Vishnu and the pair is often worshipped in tandem as Lakshmi-Narayana. Just as her husband has many avatars when he descends to earth so too Lakshmi takes on different forms:

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Timeline

c. 1500 BCE - c. 500 BCE
The Vedic Period in India after a greater migration of the Indo-Aryans from Central Asia
c. 1500 BCE - c. 500 BCE
Indian scholars of the so-called Vedic Period commit the Vedas to written form; basic tenets of Hinduism are established.