The Asuras belong to one of the primitive tribes of the country, who contributed a lot for the development of our culture and civilization. The authors of our ancient literature do not seem to have done justice to them, rather instead of recongnising their merits have tried to mutilate branding them as uncouth in form and savage in habit and so on and so forth. It may be due to the fact that the Asuras had a distinct way of life of their own, which was ...
In the present study I have tried to present a picture of Laksmi as the appears in Sanskrit texts. In the first Chapter I have shown the original of the concepts like Sri and Laksmi and their gradual development into two divinities in the Vedic literature. The distinct features of these two divinities are made clear in the Sri-Sukta which is appended to the Rg Veda as a Khila; so a separate chapter has been devoted for this. The Puranapancalaksana texts texts ...