Goddess Sri

Original Art Bali
Size 60×80 cm
Handmade Ink Painting by I Putu Budi Aryasa (Famous Balinese Painter)
Unframed

The Balinese worship Goddess Sri as the Goddess of rice and prosperity. This legend holds a very deep meaning. Goddess Sri is considered to be the inspirer of Bali’s highly productive method of cooperative rice farming as well as Bali’s master landscaper. She protects and nurtures the rice and the farmers pray to her for bountiful harvest. Although the mythology of Goddess Sri is native to Java and Sunda, after the adoption of Hinduism in the archipelago as early as the first century, She was equated with the Hindu Goddess Shri Lakshmi, and often regarded as an incarnation or one of her manifestations, as both are associated with wealth and family prosperity.