What does it mean?

What does –€—˜Žx“V mean?

It is read Marishi-ten, which is the Buddhist goddess of light, wealth and war:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marici_(Buddhism)

Thank you.

I understand “V means light, or heaven?

And —˜ means benefit, or profit?

Does –€ mean anything by itself?

And is Žx some kind of preposition?

–€(Ma)—˜(Ri)Žx(Ci/shi)“V(Ten). One of the heavenly protectors of Buddha. Like the wiki above says, it came from MARICI-Deva of Brahmanism.
When the Buddhism were spreading to the East, the original Indian Sanskrit were translated into Tibetan, and to Chinese. The Buddhism/ Brahmanism and Chinese characters were introduced into Japan at the same time, so whatever China used to described Sanskrit names, Japan used. For example, �gR�h+�hI�h sounds in Sanskrit were almost always written as—˜, and �gR�h+�hA�h were —…, and characters and meaning really didn�ft correspond each other. While the positively sounding characters were chosen, it has no meaning even to Chinese monks some 1800 years ago.
–€ is the description of the motion when two palms were scrubbed up and down as you praying. Kosu-ru.

Of course it depends on the context, but alone the characters can mean:

“V - heaven, sky, or as in this case, Buddhist divine being

—˜ - benefit or profit

–€ - rub

Žx - support, sustain

But written together as you posted earlier, they are the name of the goddess Marishi-ten.