Elements of Buddhist Iconography c7.9

c7.9

modern product, they belong rather to the Vedic age. . . . Only a few of them can be assigned to a late Brāhmaṇa period. . . . The Śrīsūkta is connected with the cult of Śrī and Lakṣmī which came into prominence in the Yajurveda period” (Scheftelowitz, *Die Apokryphen des Ṛgveda*, 1906, pp. 2–4). It may be added that Śrī and Lakṣā are mentioned as *brahmavādinī* in the Bṛhad Devatā, II, 84.