Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40
तथा सर्वमयी लक्ष्मीः सतीत्वान्नैव हीयते । प्रतिमासु च सर्वासु सर्वभूतेषु नित्यदा
tathā sarvamayī lakṣmīḥ satītvānnaiva hīyate | pratimāsu ca sarvāsu sarvabhūteṣu nityadā
तसेच सर्वव्यापिनी लक्ष्मी आपल्या सतीत्व व शुचित्वामुळे कधीही क्षीण होत नाही. ती सर्व प्रतिमांत आणि सर्व प्राण्यांत, सर्वकाळ नित्य वास करते.
Sūta (deduced: Nāgara Khaṇḍa māhātmya narration style)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Śrī-Lakṣmī as a luminous, all-pervading presence: simultaneously seated with Nārāyaṇa on a lotus and subtly radiating into temple icons and into diverse beings—humans, devas, animals, plants—signifying nitya-sthiti.
FAQs
Divine presence is constant and undiminishing; Lakṣmī’s purity signifies inexhaustible auspiciousness in worship and life.
This verse is doctrinal and universal in scope; it does not specify a single tīrtha.
It implicitly validates pratimā (icon) worship by affirming Lakṣmī’s abiding presence in all images.