根據 Wikipedia 上對這位數學家的記載,他拜的是他家族拜的女神 Mahalakshmi of
Namakkal,而這位女神的正統名稱是 Lakshmi ,義譯為吉祥天女。
Wikipedia 上的記載是: "He credited his acumen to his family goddess,
Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. He looked to her for inspiration in his work[91]
and said he dreamed of blood drops that symbolised her male consort,
Narasimha. Afterward he would receive visions of scrolls of complex
mathematical content unfolding before his eyes.[92] "
c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
他夢中可見到卷軸展開,上面寫了複雜的數學公式。