Lakshmi takes her name from the Sanskrit lakṣya — "aim, goal" — and she is the goddess of everything worth aiming for: prosperity, beauty, harmony and grace. She is the divine consort of Vishnu and, in countless homes, the very spirit of abundance.
"She rose from the ocean of milk holding a lotus — wealth that blooms, never wealth that is hoarded."
The lotus she stands on is the heart of her story: rooted in mud, rising clean and radiant. To name a daughter Lakshmi is to wish her not just fortune, but the kind of fortune that uplifts everyone around her — generous, luminous, and serene.
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