Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras
by Rajeshri Goswami | 1989 | 68,131 words
This essay studies the Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras. In short, this thesis examines Vedic goddesses by analyzing their images, functions, and social positions. It further details how natural and abstract elements were personified as goddesses, whose characteristics evolved with societal changes....
Description of Goddess Shashthi
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Sasthi is personified as a goddess in a hymn of the Manava Grihya sutra. She is beseeched to give wealth to the devotee; she is auspicious, famous and omni-formed, and she is looked upon as the wife of desire. 64 People regarded Shashthi as a goddess who benowed wealth on them. As the wife of desire she ushers in her successor, Sasthi, the goddess of childbirth.