Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3209

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The Devas were greatly aggrieved on account of this plight of theirs and they went to Satyaloka and appealed to Brahmā to find a solution to their difficulties. Brahmā was helpless in the matter and so they all together went to Vaikuṇṭha and represented their grievances before Mahāviṣṇu. Viṣṇu smiled and told Mahālakṣmī thus: "You go and be born as Kṣīrasāgaranyakā using a part of your inherent power and do give relief to the Devas." Accordingly when the Devas conducted the churning of the ocean of milk (Kṣīrābdhimathana) Mahālakṣmī, the goddess of beauty, wealth and prosperity arose from the ocean as Kṣīrasāgaranyakā (Daughter of the ocean of milk) and blessed the Devas and put a Vanamālā (garland of wild flowers) on Mahāviṣṇu. The Devas got back all their lost wealth and prosperity and they, on going to Devaloka, worshipped Lakṣmīdevī properly. (9th Skandha, Devī Bhāgavata).