Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.613

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(ii) Formerly Lakṣmī Devī took birth as the daughter of Bhṛgu by her wife Khyāti. Next she took birth from the sea of Milk at the time of the churning of it by the combined efforts of the devas and the asuras, to take Amṛta (ambrosia). When Viṣṇu took birth as Āditya, Lakṣmī took birth from lotus. When Viṣṇu incarnated as Paraśurāma Lakṣmī Devī became the earth-goddess. In the incarnation of Śrī Rāma she became Sītā and in that of Śrī Kṛṣṇa she was Rukmiṇī. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Aṃśa 1, Chapter 9).