Vakratunda Mahakaya
Said before beginning anything new, and at every Ganesha puja.
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Quick facts
- Type
- Mantra
- Deity
- Ganesha
- When it is sung
- Said before beginning anything new, and at every Ganesha puja.
- Languages
- Roman and Devanagari here; ten scripts in the app
Verse (Devanagari)
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय
सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव
सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा
Transliteration
Vakratunda mahakaya
surya-koti samaprabha
nirvighnam kuru me deva
sarva-karyeshu sarvada
What it means
O curved-trunk, mighty-bodied one, bright as ten million suns — make my path free of obstacles, in all things, always.
Read it in your language
In the Muhurtha app you can read Vakratunda Mahakaya 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.