- Language
- Sanskrit
- Author or source
- Traditional; its source is not settled
- Length
- One shloka
About this text
This is the first shloka many children learn. It is said before beginning a puja, a reading or a new piece of work, because Ganesha is honoured first in Hindu practice as the remover of obstacles. Popular collections cite various Puranas for it, but no source is settled.
Vakratunda means the one with the curved trunk, and mahakaya the one with the great body.
The text
Verse 1
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ ।
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ॥
Vakratunda mahaakaaya sooryakoti samaprabha
Nirvighnam kuru me deva sarvakaaryeshu sarvadaa
O curved-trunked one of great body, with the splendour of ten million suns: lord, make all my works free of obstacles, always.
Related texts
- Sukhakarta Dukhaharta: Ganesh Aarti
- Ganapati Atharvashirsha
- Aditya Hridayam
- Bajrang Baan
- Aartis, chalisas, stotras and mantras
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