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$ 118 Asi, female companion of Mithra-艣r墨 appears in the
Sun-temple and is placed in front of Surya. 艢r墨 in the
RV
- an abstraction, connoting the idea of beauty,
welfare and pleasing appearance.
According to Danielou, Laksmi is the goddess of
fortune. Regarding her, Iyengar says :
'Laksmi, the wife of Visnu is to start with, an
Aryan divinity, the Indian counterpart of the goddess
connected with the harvest or corn and with wealth,
beauty, pleasure, victory and well-being, whom we find
in the Italic world as C猫res among the Latins
At the same time, the author points out that in her
association with Visnu as Gajalaksmi (Saubhagyalaksmi
Up I.19) e.g. she is indigenous and pre-Aryan. Gonda
disagrees with scholars who think the connection of the
deity with rice in Indonesia as a late and indigenous
development. But he adds that the Sri-sukta depicts the
deity as the guardian deity of the farmer
("Vaidika
yugomen laksmi k膩 svarupa", NPP 63 (3-4), p. 359).
Ray suggests the possibility of some relationship between
Laksmi and Ap膩m Nap膩t. He points out that there is
similarity in the descriptions of the two divinities
(RV II 35.10 and the Srisukta), connection with water is
one of the common points between the two deities (RV II.353
and Sri-sukta 3, 12-13). Similar is their association
with young ladies (RV II.35.4, 艣rimah膩laksmi Vrata, 59).
The scholhar has not however put forward any evidence in
support of his theory. According to Shembavankar
"Metamorphosis of Usas", ABORI XVII, 351) Vedic Usas
appears as Laksmi in the later times. That scholar thinks
that J膩taveda or Agni is implored in the 艣ri-sukta to
bring Lak峁�mi, furnishes the most unequivocal clue to regard
Sri as identical with Usas. Again, the sisterhood between