Jara, `Becoming-Old'.
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[to Whom the twenty-second day of February, day 052, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.

Description: Goddess of domestic health, happiness and prosperity; She Who is a flesh-eating raksasi with the power to assume any form; Protectress from calamity; Night-eater of corpses left at cross-roads; Personification of old age; She Who is sometimes presented as long-nosed and sagging lipped, with long and pendulous breasts.

To Whom are sacred: cross-roads.

Icon: pictures of Her as a young woman surrounded by children painted or carved on a house wall.

Titles, Variants, etc.

• She is propitiated as Grhadevi, Goddess-of-the-Household.
• Also called: Grhalaksmi, below.
• She bears a resemblance to Hariti, below.

Source: Stutley HDH 126.

Grhalaksmi, Fortunate-House.
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Description: Guardian Devi of a new home.

Titles, Variants, etc.

• A form of Jara.
• Perhaps also called Svasti-Devi, below.

Hariti, The-Snatcher.
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Alternate meaning: Lofty-mountain.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani and Pakistan: Pre-Vedic Dravidian. An image found in Taxila. Tutelary Goddess of Rajagrha. Adopted and reformed by Buddhism.

Linguistic note: See Har, linguistic notes, under Kilili-Mushritu.

Description: Under Buddhism She became Protectress of children.

Titles, Variants, etc.

• Herself a Yaksini, (qv Gramadevata), and Mother of Yaksinis.
• See also Har.
• Jara bears a resemblance to Her.
• Jyestha has many affinities with Her.
• Origin of Japanese Kishimo-Jin, qv.

Sources: Brannigan AA 168 (and image); Stutley HDH 126, 130, 346.

Svasti-Devi, Good-Fortune-Goddess.
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Alternate meaning: Goddess-of-Wellbeing.

Description: Goddess of protection and prosperity for the family and its home.

Male associate: consort, Pusan.