Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s7.63
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s7.63
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LAKSHMĪ : Gaja-Lakshmī is already known in the art of Bharhut, Sanchi, Bodhgaya and Udaigiri. At Mathura this ancient typical figure of Lakshmī continued to be depicted as female figure standing on a lotus, holding two lotuses in the two hands and with a pair of elephants sprinkling water on the head of the goddess with two inverted jars held in the two trunks. But the worship of Lakshmī as the goddess of plenty and prosperity became invariably popular so that freestanding images of the goddess in bigger size began to be made.