Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4341
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.4341
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VIJAYALAKṢMĪ. One of the eight Lakṣmis. The duty of Vijayalakṣmī was keeping the treasury of Brahmā. Once she showed carelessness in her duty. So Brahmā cursed her to go and guard the gate tower of Rāvaṇa. Accordingly Vijayalakṣmī guarded the gate of Laṅkā under the name Laṅkālakṣmī. When she was hit by Hanūmān she obtained her original form and returned to the world of Devas. (See under Laṅkālakṣmī).