Jai Ganesh Deva Aarti: Lyrics and Meaning
जय गणेश देवा आरती
Traditional
"Jai Ganesh Deva" is the best-known Hindi aarti to Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati, who is worshipped first, before other deities. Many families sing it at Ganesh Chaturthi and at the start or close of a puja. In Maharashtra the usual Ganesh aarti is a Marathi one, "Sukhakarta Dukhaharta", by Samarth Ramdas. It praises his form and his kindness and ends with the offerings made to him.
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Refrain
जय गणेश जय गणेश जय गणेश देवा ॥माता जाकी पारवती पिता महादेवा ॥ टेक ॥ १॥
Jai ganesh jai ganesh jai ganesh devaMata jaki parvati pita mahadeva
IAST
jaya gaṇeśa jaya gaṇeśa jaya gaṇeśa devā ||mātā jākī pāravatī pitā mahādevā || ṭeka || 1||
Our explanation The refrain hails Lord Ganesha three times. His mother is Parvati and his father is Mahadeva, the great god Shiva. The 1914 printing, a morning song, opens instead with "rise at dawn and first of all remember Lord Ganesha". The printing marks this couplet as the refrain (ṭek), sung again after each stanza.
हिंदी अर्थ टेक में तीन बार श्री गणेश जी की जय बोली गई है। उनकी माता पार्वती हैं और पिता महादेव (शिव) हैं। 1914 की छपाई प्रभात का गीत है और "उठ प्रभात प्रथम सुमिरु श्री गणेशदेवा" से शुरू होती है, यानी सुबह उठकर सबसे पहले श्री गणेश जी का स्मरण करो। छपाई में इस दोहे को टेक कहा गया है, जो हर पद के बाद फिर गाई जाती है।
2 printings differ
Edition differences. Another printing or text reads this place differently.
- Word The 1914 Allahabad printing reads: उठ प्रभात प्रथम सुमिरु श्री गणेशदेवा ॥ माता वाकी पारवती पिता महादेवा ॥ टेक ॥ १॥ The base printing (pp. 434–435, leaves n446–n447): 'rise at dawn and first remember Lord Ganesha'; वाकी for जाकी (both mean 'whose'). The display follows today's common wording (decision 14).
- Word A digital text reads The 1914 first line, with सुमिर; जाकी, as shown here; महाँदेवा; no टेक mark. Read on the page image, leaf n219.
Stanza 1
एक दंत दयावंत चार भुजा धारी ॥मस्तक सिंदूर सोहै मूसे की सवारी ॥२॥
Ek dant dayavant char bhuja dhariMastak sindur sohai muse ki savari
IAST
eka daṃta dayāvaṃta cāra bhujā dhārī ||mastaka siṃdūra sohai mūse kī savārī ||2||
Our explanation Ganesha has one tusk and is full of kindness, and he has four arms. Red vermilion (sindūr) shines on his forehead, and he rides a mouse.
हिंदी अर्थ गणेश जी एकदंत हैं, यानी उनका एक ही दाँत है, और वे दया से भरे हैं। उनकी चार भुजाएँ हैं। उनके माथे पर सिंदूर शोभा देता है और वे चूहे (मूषक) की सवारी करते हैं।
4 printings differ
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- Word The 1914 Allahabad printing reads: एक दंत दयावंत चतुर्भुजा धारी ॥ माथे सिंदूर सोहै मूषा अस्वारी ॥२॥ The base printing (p. 435, leaf n447): चतुर्भुजा ('four-armed'), माथे ('forehead') and 'मूषा अस्वारी' ('riding a mouse'). The display follows today's common wording (decision 14).
- Word Today's text from Gita Press, Gorakhpur reads: एकदन्त दयावन्त चार भुजा धारी। मस्तक सिन्दूर सोहे मूसे की सवारी॥ मस्तक, as now shown (since 15 Oct 2026, batch 7); Randhir (p. 11) has the same. Read on the page image, p. 11, leaf n10.
- Word Today's text from sanskritdocuments.org reads: एकदन्त दयावन्त चारभुजाधारी। माथे पर तिलक सोहे मूसे की सवारी। माथे (the 1914 word) for मस्तक; adds पर; तिलक ('a forehead mark') for सिंदूर; Gita Press and Randhir have सिन्दूर.
- Word A digital text reads चारभुजा, as today; adds पर; मूषक असवारी for 'मूसे की सवारी'.
Stanza 2
अंधन को आँख देत कोढ़िन को काया ॥वाझन को पुत्र देत निर्धन को माया ॥३॥
Andhan ko ankh det korhin ko kayaVajhan ko putra det nirdhan ko maya
IAST
aṃdhana ko ām̐kha deta koṛhina ko kāyā ||vājhana ko putra deta nirdhana ko māyā ||3||
Our explanation The text says that Ganesha gives eyes to the blind, a sound body to people with leprosy, a son to women who have no child, and wealth to the poor. These are the song's own words of praise for his kindness.
हिंदी अर्थ आरती कहती है कि गणेश जी अंधों को आँखें, कोढ़ से पीड़ित लोगों को स्वस्थ काया, जिन स्त्रियों के संतान नहीं है उन्हें पुत्र, और निर्धनों को धन देते हैं। ये गीत के अपने शब्द हैं, जिनमें उनकी दया की स्तुति है।
The text’s own words about its benefits, not a promise from Pujadeep.
2 printings differ
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- Word The 1914 Allahabad printing reads: अंधन को नयन देत कुष्टिन को काया ॥ वाझन को पुत्र देत निर्धणी को माया ॥३॥ The base printing (p. 435, leaf n447): नयन for आँख (both: eyes), कुष्टिन for कोढ़िन (both: people with leprosy), निर्धणी for निर्धन. The display follows today's common wording (decision 14); it keeps the printing's spelling वाझन, said 'bāñjhan'.
- Spelling A digital text reads The same words as shown here, with बाँझिन for वाझन.
Stanza 3
पान चढ़ें फूल चढ़ें और चढ़ें मेवा ॥लड्डुअन का भोग लगे सन्त करें सेवा ॥४॥ १॥
Pan charhen phul charhen aur charhen mevaLadduan ka bhog lage sant karen seva
IAST
pāna caṛheṃ phūla caṛheṃ aura caṛheṃ mevā ||laḍḍuana kā bhoga lage santa kareṃ sevā ||4|| 1||
Our explanation Betel leaves, flowers and dried fruits are offered to him, laḍḍū sweets are offered as bhog, and saints serve him. In the 1914 printing this couplet reads differently. Incense, a lamp and naivedya, the food offered to God, are set before him and dried fruits are offered; the whole world meditates on him, and Tulsi, the name the song gives its singer, serves him.
हिंदी अर्थ उन्हें पान, फूल और मेवे चढ़ाए जाते हैं, लड्डुओं का भोग लगता है, और संत उनकी सेवा करते हैं। 1914 की छपाई में यह दोहा अलग है: उनके सामने धूप, दीप और नैवेद्य (भगवान को अर्पित भोजन) रखे जाते हैं और मेवे का भोग लगता है; सारी सृष्टि उनका ध्यान करती है, और तुलसी, जो नाम गीत अपने गाने वाले को देता है, उनकी सेवा करता है।
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- Word The 1914 Allahabad printing reads: धूप दीप नैवेद्य, भोग लगत मेवा ॥ सिगरि सृष्टि ध्यान धरत तुलसी करत सेवा ॥४॥ १॥ The base printing (p. 435, leaf n447): incense, lamp and naivedya, the whole world meditating, and the singer's name तुलसी. The display follows today's common wording (decision 14).
- Word A digital text reads The 1914 couplet, with अरु added, लगन for लगत and सकल for सिगरि (both: all). Read on the page image, leaf n219.
- Addition Today's text from Gita Press, Gorakhpur reads: लडुअन कौ भोग लगे सन्त करें सेवा। पान चढ़ें फूल चढ़ें और चढ़ें मेवा॥ The two lines in the other order; कौ for का. After this couplet it adds a stanza that the 1914 printing does not have; Randhir also prints it (p. 11) and sanskritdocuments does not. It is not shown. Read on the page image, p. 11, leaf n10.
- Addition Today's text from Randhir Prakashan, Hardwar reads: पान चढ़ें फूल चढ़ें और चढ़ें मेवा, लडुवन का भोग लगे सन्त करे सेवा। Prints this couplet right after the refrain, then stanzas 1 and 2, then a stanza and a closing line that the 1914 printing does not have; they are not shown. Read on the page image, p. 11, leaf n14.
- Addition Today's text from sanskritdocuments.org reads: पान चढ़े फल चढ़े और चढ़े मेवा। लड्डुअन का भोग लगे सन्त करें सेवा॥ फल for फूल; puts this couplet after stanza 1. It ends with a closing line that the 1914 printing does not have (that printing ends with the name तुलसी), so the closing line is not shown.
Hindi text: a reading text, checked against today’s editions; dated by the 1914 Allahabad printing. Meanings: written for Pujadeep and checked against the cited edition. Source and changes
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Jai Ganesh Deva Aarti
जय गणेश जय गणेश जय गणेश देवा ॥
माता जाकी पारवती पिता महादेवा ॥ टेक ॥ १॥
Jai ganesh jai ganesh jai ganesh deva
Mata jaki parvati pita mahadeva
The refrain hails Lord Ganesha three times. His mother is Parvati and his father is Mahadeva, the great god Shiva. The 1914 printing, a morning song, opens instead with "rise at dawn and first of all remember Lord Ganesha". The printing marks this couplet as the refrain (ṭek), sung again after each stanza.
(Meaning written for Pujadeep and checked against the cited edition.)
Text: a reading text, dated by the 1914 Allahabad printing.
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About the Jai Ganesh Deva Aarti
The words shown here are the ones families sing today, checked against three present-day texts from three publishers. The oldest dated printing found has an older form of the same song. A 1914 government report on Hindi manuscripts, printed in Allahabad, quotes it in full from a manuscript copied in Samvat 1914 (1857–58). There it is a morning song in rāg Bhairav. It begins "uṭh prabhāt pratham sumiru śrī gaṇeśdevā" ("rise at dawn and first remember Lord Ganesha"), its offerings couplet names incense, a lamp and food, and its last line names Tulsi. An undated bhajan book printed in Kashi after 1888 has the same older form. No printing of today's wording from 1930 or earlier was found; each line of the 1914 song is listed under its stanza.
Some present-day books also add a stanza and a closing line. They are not in the 1914 printing we follow, so they are not part of the text shown here; the notes under the last stanza say where they come in.
The manuscript credits the song to Tulsidas, and the closing line in some present-day books names Sur Shyam. Neither credit is documented outside the song itself, so the aarti is shown as traditional.
How to say it
The song is in Braj, the old Hindi of the Mathura region. Sung Hindi drops the final short "a" (gaṇeś, not gaṇeśa), though the IAST line writes every vowel as spelled. "jākī" means "whose" (Hindi "jiskī"). The 1914 printing writes "वाझन" with व where today's spelling has ब; the word is said "bāñjhan". "ṭek" marks the refrain, which is sung again after each stanza; the numbers are the printing's.
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Hindi text: a reading text, checked against today’s editions; dated by the 1914 Allahabad printing. Meanings: written for Pujadeep and checked against the cited edition. See the source
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- Dated witness
- The Second Triennial Report on the Search for Hindi Manuscripts for the years 1909, 1910 and 1911, by Shyam Behari Misra, assisted by Sukhdeo Behari Misra (Shyam Behari Misra, Sukhdeo Behari Misra, Nagari Pracharini Sabha, Benares, under the authority and patronage of the Government of the United Provinces, Allahabad, 1914). Public domain. Used only to date the text. The Devanagari on this page is a reading text and is not copied from this printing.
- Common wording
- In this text, 26 words follow today's common wording, checked against Gita Press, Gorakhpur; Randhir Prakashan, Hardwar and sanskritdocuments.org.
- Our explanation
- Explanation written for this site from the sources listed here, and checked against the cited edition. It is not a translation and not the only way to read the text. Free to quote with credit.
- Checked
- Checked against the cited edition, October 15, 2026.
- Updated
- October 27, 2026