One of the most auspicious yantras expounded in tantric texts, the Ashtalakshmi Darshasah Yantra is vouched for its auspiciousness and effectiveness by numerous devotees. The word ‘ashta’ in Sanskrit means eight, so this yantra is about the eight forms of Lakshmi, each of Whom have been engraved with considerable iconographic precision on each vertical edge of this yantra. They are (clockewise from top right) Shri Aishvaryalakshmi, Shri Veerlakshmi, Shri Dhyaanlakshmi, Shri Santanalakshmi (depicted with a ‘santana’, which means offsrpring), Shri Vijayalakshmi, Shri Adhilakshmi, Shri Gajalakshmi, and Shri Dhanlakshmi. The central bindu is surrounded by the sacred Shri Chakra motif of chaturdasha kona (fourteen triangles), followed by ashtadala (eight-petalled) and shodashadala (sixteen-petalled) padmas (lotuses), which is further followed by a trivalya (three girdles) and a trirekha (three-level bhupura or sacred precinct).