लक्ष्मी f. [लक्ष्-ई मुट् च Tv.]
1. Fortune, prosperity, wealth; सा लक्ष्मीरुपकुरुते यया परेषां Ki. 8. 13; मातर्लक्ष्मि तव प्रसादवशतो दोषा अमी स्यु- र्गुणाः Subhāsh., Bh. 3. 64; तृणमिव लघुलक्ष्मीर्नैव तान् संरुणद्धि Bh. 2. 17.
2 Good fortune, good luck.
3 Success, accomplishment; U. 4. 10.
4 Beauty, loveliness, grace, charm, splendour; lustre; मलिनमपि हिमां- शोर्लक्ष्म लक्ष्मीं तनोति Ś. 1. 20; U. 6. 24; Māl. 9. 25; लक्ष्मीमुवाह सकलस्य शशांकमूर्तेः Ki. 2. 59, 5. 39, 52, 9. 2; Ku. 3. 49.
5 The goddess of fortune, prosperity and beauty, regarded as the wife of Viṣṇu. (She is said to have sprung from the ocean along with the other precious things or ‘jewels’ when it was churned for nectar by the gods and demons); इयं गेहे लक्ष्मीः U. 1. 39.
6 Royal or sovereign power, dominion; (oft. personified as a wife of the king and regarded as a rival of the queen); तामेकभार्यां परि- वादभीरोः साध्वीमपि त्यक्तवतो नृपस्य । वक्षस्यसंघट्टसुखं वसंती रेजे सपत्नीरहिते- व लक्ष्मीः ॥ R. 14. 86, 12. 26.
7 The wife of a hero.
8 A pearl.
9 N. of turmeric.
10 Superhuman power.
11 N. of the eleventh digit of the moon.
−Comp.
−ईशः 1. an epithet of Viṣṇu. −2. the mango tree. −3. a prosperous or fortunate man.
−कांतः 1. an epithet of Viṣṇu. −2. a king.
−गृहं the red lotus-flower.
−तालः a kind of palm.
−नाथः an epithet of Viṣṇu.
−पतिः 1. an epithet of Viṣṇu. −2. a king; वि- हाय लक्ष्मीपतिलक्ष्म कार्मुकं Ki. 1. 44. −3. the betel-nut tree. −4. the clove tree.
−पुत्रः 1. a horse. −2. N. of Kuśa and Lava. −3. N. of Cupid or Kāma.
−पुष्पः a ruby.
−पूजनं the ceremony of worshipping Lakshmī (performed by the bridegroom in company with his bride after she has been brought home).
−पूजा the worship of Lakṣmī performed on the day of newmoon in the month of Āśvina (chiefly by bankers and traders whose commercial or official year closes on that day).
−फलः the Bilva tree.
−रमणः an epithet of Viṣṇu.
−वसतिः f. ‘Lakshmī's abode’, the red lotus-flower.
−वांरः Thursday.
−वेष्टः turpentine.
−सखः a favourite of Lakṣmī. −सहजः,
−सहोदरः 1. epithets of the moon. −2. camphor. −3. N. of the horse of Indra.