Lakshmi

One of the main deities in Hinduism is Lakshmi. She is connected to Maya and is the goddess of money, fortune, power, beauty, fertility, and prosperity ("Illusion"). She is one of three Hindu deities known as the Tridevi, along with Parvati and Saraswati.

Lakshmi is revered as the Mother Goddess' element of prosperity in the goddess-centered Shaktism. Lakshmi is the Supreme Goddess in the Vaishnav sect and helps the Hindu god Vishnu create, guard, and modify the cosmos. She is also her husband's consort and the divine spirit (shakti) of the faith. She is a very important character in Sri Vaishnavism, a religion that holds that devotion to Lakshmi is necessary to achieve Vishnu. Lakshmi always traveled with Vishnu whenever he took on an earthly form, such as Sita, Radha, or Rukmini for Vishnu's incarnations Rama and Krishna, respectively. The Ashtalakshmi, Lakshmi's eight well-known incarnations, represent the eight main sources of prosperity.

In Indian art, Lakshmi is represented as a gracefully attired, gold-colored goddess who bestows riches, sitting or standing in the padmasana pose atop a lotus throne, clutching a lotus in her palm to signify fortune, self-knowledge, and spiritual emancipation.