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I just redid the transliteration for the eight kinds of wealth. I didn't want to make it unfriendly for those not unicode friendly in the first place, but saw umlauts for macrons and thought I'd just revamp the list to IAST standards. If you disagree with this, simply revert. I thought her epithets (the पद्मप्रिय, etc) might also be rendered in Devanagari w/ proper transliteration. And is the श्री|śrī commentary necessary here? Other miscellaneous elements could be cleaned up and standardized perhaps. I know that there are a whole lot of people here whose knowledge of Hinduism far surpasses mine though, so I'll leave that to them ;-) Khirad 23:52, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Epithets

There is absolutely no reason why Lakshmi's epithets shouldn't be on this page. All other goddess articles have their epithets and other names listed on their actual article page. Lakshmi's page isn't very big anyway, and removing it just makes it even smaller. Editing the category, deleting it or relocating it is not acceptable Misplaced Pages conduct, as others have also tried to put it back after you have removed it. Please rethink your actions. 80.43.96.64 17:20, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you in that right now the list of names is small. However, later on if other people add more names (I think there are 108 names like for many Hindu deities) it will become too big. I was just pre-empting the big list of names in the future. Do you want to wait until other people add more names and then relocate it when it takes too much space. Also if you see most other pages, they have their list of names closer to the bottom. I don't think a list looks good in the middle of the article. Gizza 21:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I already added another three names, Sridevi, Bhumi Devi and Chanchala. I am fine with keeping it here at the moment but I know Lakshmiji has many more names so eventually it will have to be moved. On a lot of Misplaced Pages pages, there is only a link on the main page because the list is too big. Gizza 21:33, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, I think for now the list should be kept on the main page as it isn't too big, but if you think it would be better moved a little further down the page to suit the other gods articles I think that's ok (as long as it is the same as the other gods articles). Perhaps you can keep an eye out and if the list does become too big you should do something about it then. But it is important for the list of any god's epithets to be easily found in an article. 80.43.37.9 17:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

The Coconut and Shell/Conch are bothers of Laxmi

Can someone add this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.243.125.126 (talk) 14:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC).

You can add it yourself if you have a verifiable source. (Ghostexorcist 19:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC))

Stop messing with the intro...

OKay I am sick and tired of someone adding the astrological information to the opening, and omitting the comparisons to the Greco-Roman goddesses. That's why this article got tagged: the astro info is wholly irrelevant and sounds unencyclopedic, and doesn't really even apply to the discussion of the goddess. Can a moderator please prevent these changes from being made again? Ikshveku 09:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Tagged "Legends" section

Added ==refimprove== tag to this section because it doesn't cite any outside sources--just links to wikipedia articles.

PainMan 18:53, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Correction. It does not cite enough outside sources.
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