Ashtalakshmi Temple, Besant Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India: The Ashta Lakshmi Kovil, built in 1974, is the first shrine dedicated exclusively to the Ashta Lakshmi where Lakshmi is given greater importance than Vishnu.Temples Īshtalakshmi Kovil - Temple of Eight Lakshmi's, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. In addition to emergence of Ashta Lakshmi temples since the 1970s, traditional silver articles used in home worship as well as decorative jars ('Kumbha') now appear with the Ashta Lakshmi group molded on their sides.īooks, popular prayers manuals, pamphlets sold outside temples in South India ritual worship and "a burgeoning audiocassette market" are also popularizing these eight forms of Lakshmi.
Occasionally, the Ashta Lakshmi are depicted together in shrines or in "framing pictures" within an overall design and are worshipped by votaries of Lakshmi who worship her in her various manifestations.
The Ashta Lakshmi are now widely worshipped both by Sri Vaishnava and other Hindu communities in South India. “Although these attributes (which represent the wealths bestowed by the Ashta Lakshmi) of Sri (Lakshmi) can be found in traditional literature, the emergence of these eight (Ashta Lakshmi goddesses) in precisely this combination is, as far as I can discern, new.” Vidvan Mukkur Srinivasavaradacariyar Svamikal, published a poem called Ashta Lakshmi Stotram dedicated to the eight Lakshmis.
The rise in popularity of the Ashta Lakshmi can be linked with the rising popularity of the Ashta Lakshmi Stotram.Īround the 1970s, a leading Sri Vaishnava theologian, Sri U. The octagram, or eight-pointed star polygon ( Schläfli ), commonly misattributed to symbolize Ashtalakshmi due to being called the Star of Lakshmi in The Return of the Pink Panther
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