Gajananam
A Ganesha invocation said before any work.
MantraGanesha
Quick facts
- Type
- Mantra
- Deity
- Ganesha
- When it is sung
- A Ganesha invocation said before any work.
- Languages
- Roman and Devanagari here; ten scripts in the app
Verse (Devanagari)
गजाननं भूतगणादिसेवितं
कपित्थजम्बूफलसारभक्षितम्
उमासुतं शोकविनाशकारणं
नमामि विघ्नेश्वरपादपङ्कजम्
Transliteration
Gajananam bhutaganadi-sevitam
kapittha-jambu-phala-sara-bhakshitam
umasutam shoka-vinasha-karanam
namami vighneshvara-pada-pankajam
What it means
The elephant-faced one, served by the hosts of beings, who relishes the essence of wood-apple and rose-apple — son of Uma, cause of sorrow's end. I bow at the lotus feet of the lord of obstacles.
Read it in your language
In the Muhurtha app you can read Gajananam in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil and Telugu, count it on a japa mala, and open a link to hear it sung — all offline, with no account and no ads.