Runa Vimochana Angaraka stotram

A short stotra addressed to Angaraka — Mangala, the red graha — recited by people carrying debt. Runa is debt and vimochana is release. It circulates widely in Kannada and Telugu prayer books and in Tuesday recitation, usually as part of Angaraka worship rather than on its own. Where the verses originally come from is not settled: printed editions rarely carry a chapter reference, and the source attributions repeated online could not be verified for this page.

Significance

Mangala carries the epithet runaharta, remover of debt, alongside dhanaprada, giver of wealth. The link is not arbitrary. Mangala is Bhumiputra, the earth's son, and land and property are what Indian households have always pledged against a loan; the graha who owns the ground is the one appealed to when the ground is at risk. The word runa is older and heavier than a bank balance too — dharmashastra speaks of the debts a person is born owing, to the devas, the rishis and the ancestors — though this stotra is read by most people for the ordinary kind. Tradition holds that steady Tuesday recitation eases the pressure of debt and opens a way to repay. It is worth being plain about what that means: no stotra clears a loan. If someone offers a guaranteed remedy for a fee, that is a business, not a tradition.

How and when to chant

Tuesday, Mangala's day, in the morning after a bath, before a lamp. Red throughout — red flowers, red sandal paste, red cloth — with toor dal and a little jaggery as offering. Eleven or twenty-one recitations in a sitting is what is commonly advised, and many keep a sankalpa of consecutive Tuesdays, twenty-one being a favoured number; none of these counts is fixed by the text itself. Angaraka Chaturthi, the Sankashti Chaturthi that falls on a Tuesday, is the strongest occasion for it. Sit with the actual debt in mind, and pair the practice with something practical the same week — a repayment schedule, a conversation with the lender, an honest look at the household accounts.