3/29/2024 0 Comments Sri suktam in hindi textThe Śrī Sūkta uses the motifs of lotus (padma or kamala) and elephant (gaja) – symbols that are consistently linked with the goddess Śrī-Lakṣmī in later references. The hymn also associates Śrī with (agrarian) fertility and she is described as the mother of Kārdama (mud), moist, perceptible through odour, dwelling in cow dung and producing abundant harvest. She is addressed as the bestower of fame, bounty and abundance in the form of gold, cattle, horses and food and is entreated to banish her sister alakṣmī (misfortune), who is associated with need, hunger, thirst and poverty. The Śrī Sūkta describes Śrī as glorious, ornamented, royal, lustrous as gold, and radiant as fire, moon and the sun. Since the later epic period (ca 400 CE), Śrī-Lakṣmī is particularly associated with Viṣṇu as his wife or consort. Śrī Sūkta is perhaps the first text in which the homology between Śrī and Lakṣmī is drawn, and the goddesses are further associated with the god of fire, Agni. The goddess Śrī appears in several earlier vedic hymns, and is the personification of auspicious and royal qualities. This hymn is found in the Rig Vedic khilanis, which are appendices to the Rigveda. Śrī Sūkta, also called Śrī Sūktam, is evidently the earliest Sanskrit devotional hymn (set of shlokas Śloka-s), revering Śrī as Lakṣmī, the Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity and fertility.
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