Archi (Hindu goddess)


Archi was an ideal queen and an avatar of Lakshmi in Hindu mythology. According to Bhagavata Purana, Archi is emerged from Vena's body, along with her husband, maharaja Prithu and considered as an avatar of the wealth goddess Lakshmi, the wife of Vishnu.
As consort, she followed her husband into the forest for Sannyasa. Finally, she went Sati on his funeral pyre: