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PLATE XIII

Lakṣmī

The Goddess of Wealth and Beauty, whose birth at the churning of the ocean is represented in Fig. 2, is here shown in her usual form as a lovely woman seated on a lotus. On either side stands an elephant holding a canopy over her head. The small, separate figures have no mythological significance. For another conception of her see Plate XXI. From a painted alabaster group in the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.