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| Keywords: Gaja Lakshmi.jpg en Painting depicting Gaja-Lakṣmī; an image of the goddess Lakṣmī who reigns over fertility and good fortune seated on a lotus with an elephant gajah in Sanskrit on either side They have small wings a detail which recalls the myth in which the elephants freely roamed throughout the sky They lustrate water over her from the pitchers they carry in their uplifted trunks The goddess carries a lotus in her lower-right hand and she wrings her wet hair with her upper pair of hands while the lower-left hand rests on her lap Here the group levitates over a sea abundant in lotuses where two further elephants are swimming Painted on Paper http //www britishmuseum org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details aspx objectid 184048 partid 1 searchText lakshmi fromADBC ad toADBC ad numpages 10 images on orig 2fresearch 2fsearch_the_collection_database aspx currentPage 14 Author ~ 1780 PD-old-100 Gaja Lakshmi Paintings of elephants 18th-century paintings Paintings of Lakshmi | ||||
