BASUNDHARA

Basundhara is the Goddess of wealth or abundance as described in Buddhist scriptures. She resembles in many ways the Hindu goddess Laxmi. She is portrayed as sitting on a double lotus pedestal in a posture similar to Tara. She has four hands holding a sheaf of paddy, a full Vase or purna kalasa, a bundle of jewels and exhibits the Varada Mudra in her right hand. She has three faces, brown in right, reddish in left and yellow in the center.