My Sleeping Karma: "Moksha"

My Sleeping Karma, Napalm Records, May 14, 2015; Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

My Sleeping Karma: "Moksha"

(Napalm Records) Napalm Records (napalmrecordsamerica.com) released My Sleeping Karma on iTunes: smarturl.it/MokshaDL. Be it at live shows or on their albums, Germany's My Sleeping Karma never fail to create unique and hypnotic sounds of epic proportions that are bound to send listeners on deep mental journeys. On their fifth album, Moksha [the Sanskrit term for spiritual liberation], the instrumental groove rockers show their most varied side: waves of blustery riffs embracing fragile melodic lines. Eastern mysticism is front and center -- as it was for Gustav Holst on his early magical Hymns from the Rig Veda -- ghostly sound shivers lead eternal rhythms to new horizons. Yes, the Sanskrit word moksha ("liberation") is abused too often these days, but My Sleeping Karma makes it pure magic. #MySleepingKarma

Happy birthday, Gustav Holst (classical music)

Gustav Holst via 13Orcun, May 23, 2011, Salem Ronkartz, April 27, 2014; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26 and Two Eastern Pictures (1911)

(13Orcun) Sir David Willcocks, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Second Group, H.98 No. 2 (1909)

• For Women's Chorus and Orchestra
• To Varuna
• To Agni, 07:03
• Funeral Chant, 09:03
• First Group, H. 96 No.1 (1908-10)
• For Chorus and Orchestra
• Battle Hymn, 12:19
• To the Unknown God, 14:28
• Third Group, H. 99 No.3 (1910)
• For Women's Chorus and Harp
• Hymn to the Dawn, 20:03
• Hymn to the Waters, 23:17
• Hymn to Vena, 25:04
• Hymn of the Travellers, 30:25
• Fourth Group, H. 100 No. 4 (1912)
• For Men's Chorus and Orchestra
• Hymn to Soma, 32:40
• Hymn to Manas, 34:17
• Two Eastern Pictures, H. 112 (1911)
• For Women's Voices and Harp
• Spring, 38:09
• Summer, 40:01

SONG Hymn of the Travellers. ARTIST The Purcell Singers, Osian Ellis. ALBUM Hymn of the Travellers.

Who is mystic composer Gustav Holst?

Blissful composer Gustav Holst

Happy birthday, English classical composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934)), who would have been 148 today if secret technology in the government's possession were already made public. What a loss.

(Wiki) As a composer Holst was frequently inspired by literature. He set poetry by Thomas Hardy, Robert Bridges, and American Walt Whitman, whose words he set in "Dirge for Two Veterans" and "The Mystic Trumpeter" (1904). 

Influences: ,Max Muller, Whitman, Hardy, Bridges

Holst wrote an orchestral Walt Whitman Overture in 1899 [4]. While on tour with the Carl Rosa Company, Holst had read some of Max Müller's books on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Eastern Philosophy (Dharmic Religions), which inspired in him a keen interest in Sanskrit (ancient Indian and proto-Indian) texts, particularly the Rig Veda (the oldest spiritual scripture in the world) hymns [59].

He found the existing English versions of the texts unconvincing [n 9] and decided to make his own translations, despite his lack of skills as a linguist. He enrolled in 1909 at University College, London, to study the language [60]. Imogen commented on his translations:

Indus Valley Yoga

"He was not a poet, and there are occasions when his verses seem naïve. But they never sound vague or slovenly, for he had set himself the task of finding words that would be 'clear and dignified' and that would 'lead the listener into another world'" [61].

His settings of translations of Sanskrit texts included Sita (1899–1906), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana (which he eventually entered for a competition for English opera set by the Milan music publisher Tito Ricordi) [62]; Savitri (1908), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata; four groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda (1908–1914); and two texts originally by Kālidāsa: Two Eastern Pictures (1909–1910) and The Cloud Messenger (1913) [4]. More

Gustav Holst: The Planets, Full Suite

(Salem Ronkartz) Chapters Music Holst: The Planets Op.32: I Mars, the Bringer of War / Sasson - Attack & The General, Brooke - The Dead (III) Song 1 of 8 Holst: The Planets Op.32: II Venus, the Bringer of Peace / Dickingson - Midnight May 7th, 1945, Day Lewis - Will It Be So Again Song 2 of 8 2. Venus, The Bringer of Peace Song 3 of 8 3. Mercury, The Winged Messenger Song 4 of 8 The Planets, Op. 32: V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age Song 5 of 8 The Planets Suite: Saturn Song 6 of 8 6. Uranus, the Magician Song 7 of 8 Ongrijpbaar Song 8 of 8.

• 0:00 Mars
• 7:27 Venus
• 14:52 Mercury
• 18:39 Jupiter
• 26:11 Saturn
• 35:26 Uranus (pronounced \your-anus\)
• 41:12 Neptune

ARTIST Andrew Davis. ALBUM Holst: The Planets Op.32: I Mars, the Bringer of War / Sasson - Attack & The General, Brooke - The Dead (III). UMG Son Mieux - Multicolor.

Oldest spiritual scriptures: Rig Veda (video)

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove, June 10, 2019; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Understanding the Rig Veda with Debashish Banerji

(New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove) The guest is Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and Chairman of the East West Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco Debashish Banerji, PhD.

Prof. Banerji is the author of Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo and also The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore, a book about his great grandfather.

There is much in the mind yet to fathom.

He edited an anthology about his great uncle, Rabindranath Tagore in the Twenty-First Century. His newest anthology is titled Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures. Here he discusses the cosmology inherent in what is arguably the world's oldest religious scripture, the Rig Veda, aspects of which are surprisingly modern.

He points out that the Vedas share many Indo-European traits. The ancient Greek pantheon is similar to Rigvedic deities, which predates it by millennia. Dr. Banerji refers to hymns celebrating the use of a mysterious bliss-inducing entheogen known as "Soma."

How shall we become Western mystics?

He elaborates upon the role of sacrifice in ancient India. He also notes that this ancient proto-Indian (Indus Valley Civilization) scripture can be viewed in a psychological context.

New Thinking Allowed Host Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is the author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man.

Vajrayana Buddhism is greatly influenced

ABOUT: Between 1986 and 2002 Dr. Mishlove hosted and co-produced the original "Thinking Allowed" public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded (1980) by an accredited university -- in this case the greatest public school in the world, the University of California at Berkeley.

He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.

(This interview was recorded on May 22, 2019). 

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Transcendentalism on Walden POOL (video)

Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, Wiki edits

Gustav Holst (13Orcun) Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26, Two Eastern Pictures (1911)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism is an American movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States.

It arose as a reaction to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time.

The doctrine of the Unitarian church as taught at Harvard Divinity School was of great interest.

 

Sarah Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalism emerged from "English and German Romanticism, the biblical criticism...the skepticism of David Hume," and the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant and German Idealism.

• Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg is regarded as a pervasive influence on transcendentalism by Miller and Versluis.
• Hindu texts on philosophy of the mind and spirituality, particularly the Upanishads, also strongly influenced it.

Author on KPFA, Berkeley

A core belief of transcendentalism is in the inherent goodness of people and nature.

Adherents believe that society and its government institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual. They have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.

 

Transcendentalism emphasizes subjective knowledge (inner knowing, direct intuition of the heart) over objective empiricism (experts dictating from their experiments and heads).

Transcendatalists agree that individuals are capable of generating completely original insights with little reliance or deference to past "masters." More

The Graduate's Ben Braddock is just drifting along on his parents' California pool all summer.

Civil Disobedience

Thoreau's writing restored Walden Pond.

Civil Disobedience is an 1849 essay by American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. It argues that individuals should resist permitting governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences.

We have a duty to resist and avoid allowing such acquiescence that enables the government to make us the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated, in part, by his disgust with American slavery and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).

Who was Thoreau?

Henry David Thoreau, August 1861

Henry David Thoreau, while living in Walden Woods for two years beginning in 1845, was an American Transcendentalist contemplating Walden Pond's features.

In "The Ponds" section of Walden, published in 1854, Thoreau extols the water's physical properties.

He details its unparalleled water quality, clarity, color, temperature, unique animal life (aquatic, avian, mammalian), rock formations and bed and, especially, its mirror-like surface properties.

 

We can live in forests our own with Nature.

Thoreau contemplates the source of the pristine water body in the woods. He observes that it had no visible inlet or outlet, and considers the possibility of an unidentified spring at the bottom.

Noting the kettle landform's ramparts and resilient shore, he concludes that a unique, natural geologic event (glacial retreat) formed the site, while recognizing local myths:

Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly paved. My townsmen have all heard the tradition -- the oldest people tell me that they heard it in their youth -- that anciently the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its side and became the present shore. It is very certain, at any rate, that once there was no pond here, and now there is one; and this Indian fable does not in any respect conflict with the account of that ancient settler whom I have mentioned, who remembers so well when he first came here with his divining-rod, saw a thin vapor rising from the sward, and the hazel pointed steadily downward, and he concluded to dig a well here. As for the stones, many still think that they are hardly to be accounted for...one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond.

In "The Ponds" Thoreau describes incorporeal experiences around the water.

These experiences were relayed to him by others and his own. Thoreau -- who was a well read Transcendentalist and, therefore, presumably intimately familiar with Romanticism -- relates the stories in a way that could be argued to interpret or reveal the pond as the locale of the Grail Legend in the Americas.

An old man who used to frequent this pond nearly sixty years ago, when it was dark with surrounding forests, tells me that in those days he sometimes saw it all alive with ducks and other water-fowl, and that there were many eagles about it....

When I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grapevines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass. The hills which form its shores are so steep, and the woods on them were then so high, that, as you looked down from the west end, it had the appearance of an amphitheater for some kind of sylvan spectacle. I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive... More

The Graduate POOL was my Walden Pond

The Graduate's Ben ("Son" played by Dustin Hoffman), boyfriend of "Mrs. Robinson," on the pool in idyllic California. It's the 50 year anniversary,* and we're barely realizing the connection.

• FilmWeek screening of The Graduate, hosted by Lovery
• June 2, 2018, 7:00-10:30 pm @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel 933 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015

*Mike Nichols’s romantic comedy-drama The Graduate recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. It is in the Top 20 of the American Film Institute’s best American movies list and has the distinction of being the last film to win an Academy Award for best director and nothing else (despite being nominated in six other categories).

Ukraine's Aratta Civilization older than Sumeria

ZoharStarGate 4.20.17 (Megalithomania); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Discovery of the Ancient Aratta Civilization of Ukraine, Older than Sumeria

Several locations have been suggested as probable locations of Aratta. Now there is firm evidence that it was located in a region of modern Ukraine north of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

While many Western texts still refer to Sumer as being "the oldest civilization with writing," Ukraine has something far older. [Hail the Goddess Inanna.]

Buddhist burial mounds (stupas) in Ukraine

It was Aratta, which was recorded in the Sumerian epic tale Enmerkar and the Land of Aratta.

This was the cradle of civilization -- at 22,000 BCE -- and Kamyana Mohyla was its most significant sanctuary. This is a very special place. It is the oldest known sanctuary-observatory in the world.

Aratta is now recognized as having been the world's most ancient known civilization. It developed on the steppes north of the Black Sea, in modern Ukraine, long before the Sumerian civilization originated, and from there it radiated its culture into India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Western China, Ireland, and across Europe. More relics of Aratta are increasingly being found and identified in Ukraine.

Tibetan Buddhist lamas visit Khortytsia Island, Ukraine, as place of their origin

 
Commentary

The Buddha was a supremely handsome Central Asian royal with blue eyes, fair/golden complexion, black curly hair, and striking features, from the Solar Dynasty, a warrior-caste "noble" (Aryan or Iranian). See Rhys Davids' Jataka (trans.) with "Story of the Lineage" (MT)

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Buddhism and Vedas speak of aeons of history

All of these amazing pre-Ice Age civilization discoveries are giving greater and greater weight to an outlandish theory proposed by a Russian scholar years ago, which Wisdom Quarterly covered early on (Was the Buddha Ukrainian?) we covered early on.

There's a saying: "If you're one step ahead, you're a genius. If you're two steps ahead, you're a lunatic." That would explain in large part why Wisdom Quarterly is willing to talk about such outlandish things long before the gatekeepers, media, and dictators of our "consensus reality" catch up. We must get to the truth however unexpected it is or how ever much it violates our preconceived notions.

It's not so surprising if the Buddha were from North Asia. Dr. Ranajit Pal says the Buddha was born in Bamiyan, Afghanistan (one of the three seasonal capitals of people the Ancient Greeks would later call the Scythians/Shakyians, the other two being Kapil/Kabul or Kapilavastu and, we surmise, the incredible Mes Aynak). Ukraine is just above that and the formerly Buddhist "stans" of Central Asia, which later formed the USSR/Russian Empire:

• Buddha, Jesus, Egyptians were Ukrainians (Pravda) 
• History: What was the historical Buddha's ethnicity?
• "Earliest shrine" uncovered at Buddha's birthplace

Ven. Junsei Terasawa (Japanese 寺沢潤世, Russian Дзюнсэй Тэрасава, Ukrainian Дзюнсей Терасава) was born Sept. 15, 1950. He is a Japanese Buddhist monk, belonging to the Order Nipponzan Myōhōji. He is notable for being the first Nipponzan monk to be active in Eurasia. Being a respected mentor, surnamed Terasawa-sensei or simply Sensei, he has undertaken many years of monastic peacemaking practices in India, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Presently, he teaches groups of monks from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and China.

Forbidden Archeology: UFOs of India (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Michael Cremo addresses the monthly MUFON LA meeting, Universalist Unitarian Church, Studio City, on the extreme antiquity of humans on Earth and written documentation of UFOs in ancient Sanskrit texts (WQ).

Part I: Spacecraft in Ancient Sanskrit Texts

Accounts of Spacecraft in Texts of Ancient India

THE VALLEY, California - Last night the Mutual UFO Network of Los Angeles hosted scientist Michael Cremo who read and translated ancient Sanskrit texts, such as the Puranas or "Histories," explaining the nature of the universe.

  

Just as the Buddha asserted, there are three distinct spheres (lokas): kama, rupa, and arupa or sensual, fine-material, and immaterial. MUFON's interest is in UFOs and extraterrestrials rather than cosmology as such.

But Cremo made the link: There are three distinct kinds of UFOs (vimanas) depending on which sphere it is from. There are gross/dense machines, subtle-light vehicles, and "spiritual" craft. We can think of it in modern terms as ordinary Grey/MIC/Nazi saucers, vehicles used for dimensional travel, and mind-only (non-material) craft.

 

PART II: Spacecraft in Ancient Sanskrit Texts

 PART III: Spacecraft in Ancient Sanskrit Texts

Cremo distinguishes authentic Sanskrit texts of great antiquity from later "channelled" materials like the Vimanika Shastra, which may shed light on the matter but are not writings from yogis in the Himalayas. One amazing aspect is that when Dhurva meditated in the Himalaya, beings came down in a craft to take him to their world in another sphere. Earth is a world in the Sensual Sphere, and those beings were from a fine-material world or higher). 

 

And this is the amazing thing: As he entered the craft, his body became like theirs. He had already understood by meditation that consciousness was separate, or at least separable, from his earthly body. He was transformed upon entering the craft and recounts in the texts that the craft became transparent and he saw the planets in our solar system passing, and they passed through other higher-dimensional planets on their way to their destination.

• Live in Orange County: Cremo returns to SoCal to deliver this presentation at MUFON OC on Nov. 28th, 2012

Live in Los Angeles

(forbiddenarcheologist.com)

MUFON LA proudly presents Michael Cremo this month. In this rare (perhaps twice a decade) event, one of our favorite scientists reveals stunning findings. His research forms much of the basis of our view about Earth. His science is in line with a firm grasp of Vedantic and Puranic Hindu and Buddhist cosmologies, which he uses to tie together the story behind forbidden artifacts. What do they reveal? Past life and technology on our planet is much older and far more advanced than we can easily conceive. There is no denying that the forbidden truth is much stranger than the mandatory fiction in our college textbooks due to the knowledge-filterers and science suppressors. We "evolve," of course, but we were "created" (genetically manipulated) as well.

• Who: Michael A. Cremo
• What: RSVP for this presentation
• Where: Unitarian Universalist Church
  12355 Moorpark St., Studio City, CA 91604
• When: Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 8:00 pm

Indo-Aryan Roots of Buddhism

Map of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture (red), its expansion into the Andronovo culture during the 2nd millennium BC, showing the overlap with the BMAC in the south. The location of the earliest chariots is shown in purple.

Origin
The Indo-Iranians are commonly identified with the Andronovo culture, Vedic civilization, Iranian Culture, and their homeland with an area of the Eurasian steppe that borders the Ural River on the west, the Tian Shan on the east (where the Indo-Iranians took over the area occupied by the earlier Afanasevo culture), and Transoxiana and the Hindu Kush on the south.

Historical linguists broadly estimate that a continuum of Indo-Iranian languages probably began to diverge by 2000 BC, if not earlier[1]:38–39 preceding both the Vedic and Iranian cultures.

The earliest recorded forms of these languages, Vedic Sanskrit and Gathic Avestan, are remarkably similar, descended from the common Proto-Indo-Iranian language. The origin and earliest relationship between the Nuristani languages and that of the Iranian and Indic groups is irrecoverably obscure.

Expansion

Archaeological cultures associated with Indo-Iranian migrations (after EIEC). The Andronovo, BMAC and Yaz cultures have often been associated with Indo-Iranian migrations. The GGC, Cemetery H, Copper Hoard and PGW cultures are candidates for cultures associated with Indo-Aryan movements.

Two-wave models of Indo-Iranian expansion have been proposed by Burrow (1973) and Parpola (1999).

First wave
Main article: Indo-Aryan migration

The Indo-Iranians and their expansion are strongly associated with the chariot. It is assumed that this expansion went into the Caucasus, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia. They also expanded into Mesopotamia and Syria and introduced the horse and chariot culture to this part of the world. Sumerian texts from EDIIIb Ngirsu (2500-2350 BC) already mention the "chariot" (gigir) and Ur III texts (2150-2000 BC) mention the horse (anshe-zi-zi).

They left linguistic remains in a Hittite horse-training manual written by one "Kikkuli the Mitannian". Other evidence is found in references to the names of Mitanni rulers and the gods they swore by in treaties; these remains are found in the archives of the Mitanni's neighbors. The time period for this is about 1500 BC.[2]:257

The standard model for the entry of the Indo-European languages into South Asia is that this first wave went over the Hindu Kush, either into the headwaters of the Indus and later the Ganges. The earliest stratum of Vedic Sanskrit, preserved only in the Rigveda, is assigned to roughly 1500 BC.[3][2]:258 From the Indus, the Indo-Aryan languages spread from c. 1500 BC to c. 500 BC, over the northern and central parts of the subcontinent, sparing the extreme south.

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The Indo-Aryans in these areas established several powerful kingdoms and principalities in the region, from eastern Afghanistan to the doorstep of Bengal. The most powerful of these kingdoms were the post-Rigvedic Kuru (in Kurukshetra and the Delhi area) and their allies the Pañcālas further east, as well as Gandhara and later on, about the time of the Buddha, the kingdom of Kosala and the quickly expanding realm of Magadha. The latter lasted until the 4th century BC, when it was conquered by Chandragupta Maurya and formed the center of the Mauryan empire.

In eastern Afghanistan and southwestern Pakistan, whatever Indo-Aryan languages were spoken there were eventually pushed out by the Iranian languages, such as that of the Avesta-like Kamboja. Most Indo-Aryan languages, however, were and still are prominent in the rest of the Indian subcontinent. Today, Indo-Aryan languages are spoken in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. More>>

• Ranajit Pal's reenvisioning of history and depths of the Aryan roots

Uppalavana: a historical Lakshmi?

Amol N. Bankar (Sri Lakshmi) and Dharmachari Seven (Ven. Uppalavanna)

India art depicts a female deity (devi) -- generically associated with Lakshmi (the beautiful "goddess of prosperity"). There is reason to believe that the historical character of Lakshmi is based on legends of the Buddha's foremost female disciple, Uppalavanna. The popular deity is worshipped by Buddhists, Hindus, and Jains.

Her appearance on coins (as shown here) is of a female in the popular meditation pose of Buddhists and Jain ascetics atop a lotus. This imagery is widespread in Shramanic ("wandering ascetic") and Brahmanical traditions, which adopted many of the motifs and ambitions of this populist new wave of religious expression away from priests and temples to actually attained individuals. (This echoes what was to happen in Israel centuries later when the vibrant Shramana Jesus (just back from India) took on the staid established Jewish orthodoxy and caused a revolution that continues to influence the West.

Like Krishna, a historical figure elevated to mythic proportions, the move from her origins in history to being associated with Lakshmi are not accidental. It behooves institutions to adopt popular traits and integrate them with established figures for fear of being displaced by them.

Another example is the Indian god (deva-raja) Indra,* who like Zeus or Thor is imagined to hurl lightning bolts in the sky. It is well known that Indra is in fact an amalgamation of the pre-Vedic and Vedic gods. And Buddhists refer to Indra as and Śakra (Pali, Sakka), the "king of the devas" who is at war in the heavens with the Asuras. He therefore has come to be regarded as the "god of war" as if he were more than a deva ("godling") or for war.

The Uppalavana/Lakshmi figure is seen on coins of Saurashtra Janapada, local coins in Buddhist and formerly Buddhist part of the Indian empire: Kausambi, Ujjain, Mathura, Ayodhya, Kashmir, Sri Lanka , Nepal, and coins of Yaudheya, Kuninda , Arjunayana, Agodaka.

The popularity of this goddess transcended the religious beliefs of the issuers like Azilises and Mohd Ghauri.

Who was the Vedic Lakshmi?
Ananda Coomaraswamy believes that Aditi is analogous with Lakshmi. She is Great Mother (Mahi-Mata) the imperishable goddess. She is the mother (or sister) of Adityas (including Mitra and Varuna) and daughter (or mother) of Daksha. The honorific "Sri" (a noun and adjective) is used in Rig Veda and also in Avestan literature to denote "that which is beautiful." The word Lakshmi first appears in Rig Veda in the sense of an auspicious or pleasant quantity. Her origin is traced to fifteen verses known as the Hymn to Sri (Sri-sukta) found appended to the regular collection of hymns of the Fifth Book of the Rig Veda.

The Rig Vedic hymns of Sri Sukta associate her with the lotus. It describes her as Padma Sthite ("stands on lotus"), Padmavasa or Padmagriha (residing in a lotus). Hiranyavarnam (one who shines like gold reminiscent of Uppalavanna's skin tone), Adityavarnam/Pingala ("radiant as the sun"/"yellow in hue"), Hemamalini ("wearing a gold garland"), Chandram ("blossoming like the moon"), Suvarna ("whose luster is that of burnished gold"), Devajushtam ("worshipped by devas"). She is blazing with splendor, and is the embodiment of the fulfillment of all wishes. She is said to drive out all misfortune and poverty. She is unfailing and blesses with wealth and plenty, not only gold but also cattle, servants, horses, and men.

Indra/Sakka

*INDRA: in Hindu mythology, the "king of the gods." He is one of the main gods of the archaic Sanskrit collection of hymns, the Rigveda, and is the Indo-European cousin of the German Wotan, Norse Odin, Greek Zeus, and Roman Jupiter.

The Rig-Veda frequently refers to him as Śakra -- the mighty-one. In the Vedic period, the number of gods was assumed to be thirty-three and Indra was their lord. (The slightly later Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad enumerates the gods as the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, Indra, and Prajapati). As lord of the Vasus, Indra was also referred to as Vāsava.

By the age of the Vedanta, Indra became the prototype for all lords and thus a king could be called Mānavendra (Indra or "lord of men") and Rama, the hero of the Ramayana, was referred to as Rāghavendra ("Indra of the clan of Raghu").

Hence the original Indra was also referred to as Devendra ("Indra of the Devas"). However, Sakra and Vasava were used exclusively for the original Indra. Though, modern texts usually adhere to the name Indra, the traditional Hindu texts (the Vedas, epics, and Puranas) use Indra, Sakra, and Vasava interchangeably and with the same frequency. "Of the Vedas I am the Sama Veda; of the demigods I am Indra, the king of heaven; of the senses I am the mind; and in living beings I am the living force [consciousness]" (Bhagavad Gita 10.22).