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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 8172852, member: 51347&quot;]<b>ANCIENT SRI LANKA</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2021-2-14_6-40-11-png.1252879/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Sri Lanka,</p><p><b>excavated in Anuradhapura</b></p><p>Anonymous, 1st C. BCE</p><p>PB 1/8 Lakshmi</p><p>1.1g, 14.1mm x 7.8mm</p><p>RARE</p><p>OBV: Hindu Goddess Lakshmi facing. She is the goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity. She was a beauty and the wife of Vishnu</p><p>REV: (blank)</p><p>Comment: &quot;<b>Lakshmi</b> (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मी, <i>lakṣmī,</i>ˈləkʂmiː) is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_goddess" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_goddess" rel="nofollow">Hindu goddess</a> of wealth, fortune and prosperity. She is the wife and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti" rel="nofollow">shakti</a>(energy) of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu" rel="nofollow">Vishnu</a>, a major god in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" rel="nofollow">Hinduism</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-anandrao167-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-anandrao167-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> Lakshmi is also an important deity in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism" rel="nofollow">Jainism</a> and found in Jain temples.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> Lakshmi was also a goddess of abundance and fortune for Buddhists, and was represented on the oldest surviving stupas and cave temples of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" rel="nofollow">Buddhism</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> In Buddhist sects of Tibet, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" rel="nofollow">Nepal</a> and southeast Asia, goddess <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasudhara" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasudhara" rel="nofollow">Vasudhara</a>mirrors the characteristics and attributes of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi with minor iconographic differences.&quot; -Wikipedia.org</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2019-12-13_8-56-57-png.1036398/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Non-Roman, Non-Greek, Non-Persian Non-Carthage God / Goddess[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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