The Indian Anadyomene

As a child I used to listen to the stories From mythologies narrated by my mother. Birth of Venus is one such story She picked up from the Greek Myth. I remember that she never used The word Anadyomene, which in Greek Meant, ‘Rising from the Sea', because Venus rose from the sea a fully grown adult. Mother went on to draw analogy between Venus and the Indian Goddess Lakshmi, Emerged as a godly woman of youthful grace, From the depths of Kshirasagara, the Ocean of Milk, When it was churned by Devas and Asuras, In search of Amrutha, the nectar of immortality. Thereafter, in all the three worlds*, the lotus-bearing Goddess was celebrated. Thus Goddess Lakshmi Is the Indian Anadyomene.