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About Lakshmi Tantra
Pancharatra is a Vaishnava tradition of theology, worship and spiritual practice centred on Vishnu–Narayana. This work gives that tradition a distinctive voice by placing Lakshmi in the teacher’s position. Its opening conversation asks what she is, how she can be known, how she is approached and how her relation with the Lord should be understood.
More About Lakshmi Tantra
A Pancharatra text presenting teaching through the voice and theology of Lakshmi.
AT A GLANCE
Identity & Context
- Identity
- Text
- Form
- Agamas & Tantras
- Tradition
- Hindu religious traditions
Teachers & Participants
- TeacherMahalakshmi
Mahalakshmi gives the teaching in response to Indra’s inquiry.
INSIDE THE TEXT
Stories & Teachings
ROLE & ESSENCE
Themes & Meaning
The opening turns devotion into a sustained inquiry. Indra’s reverence leads him to ask intelligible questions, and Lakshmi’s answers connect worship with an account of existence itself. The scripture is consequently useful for understanding a Vaishnava vision in which the Goddess’s grace, knowledge and cosmic agency belong at the centre of spiritual life.
Library Category
Form / Textual Family
Agama / Tantra
Traditional Attribution
An inherited textual tradition; no single historical author is established here.
Subject & Teachings
A Pancharatra text presenting teaching through the voice and theology of Lakshmi.
Associated Deities / Figures
Textual Relationships
Historical Context
Composition, transmission and redaction must be distinguished; no unsupported exact date is assigned.
Reading Notes
This overview supplies context and reading connections, not reconstructed initiation or ritual instructions.
Tradition Notes
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
Archive Classification Notes
Original archive annotations are retained here. The current playable classification is shown in the side panel.
- Tradition Dependence
- High — compare the identified textual or regional account.
- Structure
- Consult the identified edition for chapters, recension and numbering.
TRADITION & MEANING
Traditions & Interpretations
Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
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The Sacred Library2
Lakshmi Tantra belongs to the Pancharatra Agama tradition.
Characters & Cosmic Entities3
Mahalakshmi gives the teaching in response to Indra’s inquiry.
The scripture explains Lakshmi’s inseparable relationship with Narayana.
Indra asks Lakshmi to explain her nature and the means of approaching her.