Wan Maha Lap

Ritual purpose

Great gain, fortune, metta, smooth negotiation, trade advancement, money-drawing, luck divination.

Botanical

Eucrosia bicolor Ker Gawl. (Amaryllidaceae), "Peruvian Lily", native to Peru/Ecuador. Alias ว่านกวักนางพญาหงสาวดี. Distinguished from ว่านมหาโชค by orange/saffron (vs white) flowers.

Origin / legend

No mythic origin story; folk meaning is in the divination use — good growth/flowering portends gain, poor growth a bad-luck sign. Often paired with มหาโชค and มหาบัว as an auspicious triad.

Consecration method (ปลุกเสก)

Best planted on a waxing Friday; consecrate the watering water by reciting the katha 3 times before watering. A day-birth variant for Sunday-born people: plant in front of the house on a Buddhist holy day, waxing lunar day 6-15, reciting the katha 3 times.

Katha (คาถา)

• มหาลาโภโหตุ ภะวันตุเม

  maha labho hotu bhavantu me

  "May great gain/fortune come to me."

• มหาลาโภคะ วันตุเม

  maha labhoka wantu me

  Likely a garbled/popular variant of the same formula, per a separate source.

Application

Plant in a pot or at the front of the house; care for it as a living luck-divination plant.

Taboos / restrictions (ข้อห้าม)

• Avoid waterlogging (bulb rot); moderate light, not harsh full sun.

Sources

• Baanlaesuan, "ว่านมหาลาภ"
• SaimHerbal, "ว่านมหาลาภ"
• Sanook Horoscope, "ปลูกว่านเสริมดวงตามวันเกิด"