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Hanuman Hanuman Aarti: Lord Hanuman flying with the Sanjeevani mountain over burning Lanka as a family performs aarti
Hanuman carrying the Sanjeevani mountain over Lanka, and an aarti below
Mantra · The lamp song of Hanuman: Lanka, Sanjivani, Patala, Anjana's flame

Hanuman Aarti

आरती कीजै हनुमान लला की । दुष्ट दलन रघुनाथ कला की ॥

Also known as Aarti Kije Hanuman Lala Ki

In Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English — with the meaning of every word, and the one syllable most people pronounce wrongly.

What the Hanuman Aarti is

Aarti Kije Hanuman Lala Ki is the Hanuman aarti, the song sung while a lamp is waved before Hanuman. The word aarti, from the Sanskrit aratrika, names both the act of circling the flame and the hymn that goes with it. The text is a traditional North Indian aarti in Hindi with an Awadhi and Braj colouring, and its author is unknown. It is built as a refrain and twelve rhyming couplets. The refrain calls Hanuman 'lala', an affectionate word for a beloved boy, and names him the power of Raghunatha that crushes the wicked. Couplets 1 and 2 describe his strength and his care for the saints. Couplets 3 to 8 run through his deeds in order: the commission from Rama, the burning of Lanka, the Sanjivani herb for Lakshmana and the descent to Patala against Ahiravana. Couplets 9 and 10 turn to the worship itself, ending with his mother Anjana holding the camphor plate. Couplet 11 is the phala line, and couplet 12 is a signature naming Tulsidas.

Ahiravana and the descent to Patala

Most of the deeds in this aarti come from the Ramayana as Valmiki and Tulsidas tell it, but couplet 7 points to an episode found in neither: Hanuman entering Patala, the netherworld, and tearing off the arms of Ahiravana. The fullest early telling is in the Bengali Ramayana of Krittivasa, and later regional versions, including a sixteenth-century Telugu Mairavan charitra, retell it. In this account Ahiravana, also called Mahiravana, rules Patala and is an ally of Ravana. During the war at Lanka he uses sorcery and a sleeping spell to carry Rama and Lakshmana underground, meaning to offer them to his goddess. Hanuman learns the way down from Vibhishana. At the gate of Patala he is challenged by a young guard, Makaradhwaja, who says he is Hanuman's own son, born of a drop of Hanuman's sweat that fell into the sea after Lanka burned; this part of the legend is not in Valmiki, and folk versions differ on the details. Inside, Hanuman takes a five-faced form, puts out five lamps at once and beheads Ahiravana, then crowns Makaradhwaja king of Patala. The aarti compresses all of this into one line about broken guards and torn arms.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiआरती कीजै हनुमान लला की । दुष्ट दलन रघुनाथ कला की ॥
Tamilஆரதீ கீஜை ஹநுமாந லலா கீ । துஷ்ட தலந ரகுநாத கலா கீ ॥
Teluguఆరతీ కీజై హనుమాన లలా కీ । దుష్ట దలన రఘునాథ కలా కీ ॥
Kannadaಆರತೀ ಕೀಜೈ ಹನುಮಾನ ಲಲಾ ಕೀ । ದುಷ್ಟ ದಲನ ರಘುನಾಥ ಕಲಾ ಕೀ ॥
Malayalamആരതീ കീജൈ ഹനുമാന ലലാ കീ । ദുഷ്ട ദലന രഘുനാഥ കലാ കീ ॥
EnglishRoman transliterationāratī kījai hanumāna lalā kī | duṣṭa dalana raghunātha kalā kī ||
“Let us wave the lamp in worship of beloved Hanuman, the power of Raghunatha (Rama) that crushes the wicked. This refrain is sung at the start and after the stanzas; it is printed once here and not repeated.”
आरती
āratī — lamp-worship, aarti
कीजै
kījai — let us perform
हनुमान
hanumāna — of Hanuman
लला
lalā — beloved boy
की
kī — of
दुष्ट
duṣṭa — the wicked
दलन
dalana — crushing
रघुनाथ
raghunātha — of Rama, lord of the Raghus
कला
kalā — power, portion
की
kī — of

Hanuman Aarti lyrics in full

All 13 verses, in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English, each with its meaning. Choose a script:

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Refrain

आरती कीजै हनुमान लला की ।
दुष्ट दलन रघुनाथ कला की ॥

Let us wave the lamp in worship of beloved Hanuman, the power of Raghunatha (Rama) that crushes the wicked. This refrain is sung at the start and after the stanzas; it is printed once here and not repeated.

Stanza 1

जाके बल से गिरिवर कांपे ।
रोग दोष जाके निकट न झांके ॥

By his strength the great mountains tremble; disease and affliction dare not even peep near him.

Stanza 2

अंजनि पुत्र महा बलदाई ।
सन्तन के प्रभु सदा सहाई ॥

The son of Anjani is the giver of great strength, the lord of the saints and always their helper.

Stanza 3

दे बीरा रघुनाथ पठाए ।
लंका जारि सिया सुधि लाए ॥

Raghunatha gave him the betel-leaf token of commission and sent him forth; he burned Lanka and brought back news of Sita.

Stanza 4

लंका सो कोट समुद्र-सी खाई ।
जात पवनसुत बार न लाई ॥

Lanka was such a fortress, with an ocean for its moat, yet the son of the Wind took no time at all in going.

Stanza 5

लंका जारि असुर संहारे ।
सियारामजी के काज संवारे ॥

He burned Lanka, slew the demons and accomplished the work of Sita and Rama.

Stanza 6

लक्ष्मण मूर्छित पड़े सकारे ।
आनि संजीवन प्राण उबारे ॥

When Lakshmana lay unconscious, he brought the Sanjivani herb before daybreak and saved his life.

Stanza 7

पैठि पताल तोरि जम-कारे ।
अहिरावण की भुजा उखारे ॥

Entering the netherworld, he broke through its deathly guards and tore off the arms of Ahiravana.

Stanza 8

बाएं भुजा असुरदल मारे ।
दाहिने भुजा संतजन तारे ॥

With his left arm he struck down the demon hosts; with his right arm he carried the good across to safety.

Stanza 9

सुर नर मुनि आरती उतारें ।
जय जय जय हनुमान उचारें ॥

Gods, men and sages wave the lamp before him and cry, "Victory, victory, victory to Hanuman!"

Stanza 10

कंचन थार कपूर लौ छाई ।
आरती करत अंजना माई ॥

On a golden plate the camphor flame spreads its glow, as Mother Anjana performs his aarti.

Stanza 11

जो हनुमानजी की आरती गावे ।
बसि बैकुण्ठ परम पद पावे ॥

The verse says that whoever sings this aarti of Hanuman will dwell in Vaikuntha and attain the supreme state.

Stanza 12

लंक विध्वंस किये रघुराई ।
तुलसीदास स्वामी कीर्ति गाई ॥

Raghurai (Rama) destroyed Lanka, and Tulsidas has sung the glory of his master. (Signature couplet: printed by most popular editions, absent from the Gita Press Aarti-Sangrah.)

The syllable people get wrong

In couplet 6, पड़े (paṛe, 'lay fallen') has the flapped ṛ written with a dot under the letter, not a plain ḍ: the tongue curls back and flicks once, so it sounds closer to 'pa-re' with a hard, quick r than to 'pa-de'.

When the Hanuman Aarti is chanted

Weekday. Tuesday

Festival. Hanuman Jayanti

Questions

There is no firm evidence that he did. Many popular editions close with a couplet that says Tulsidas has sung the Lord's glory, and that line is why the aarti is often credited to him. But such a closing line is a signature convention, the aarti is not among his attested works, and the Gita Press Aarti-Sangrah, edited by Hanuman Prasad Poddar, prints the aarti with no author and without that couplet. It is best treated as a traditional aarti of unknown authorship.
Bira is the folded betel-leaf roll, the same word as the Hindi bida. An older court custom lies behind it: a betel roll was set out before an assembly when a hard task had to be done, and whoever picked it up took the task on. The idiom 'bida uthana' still means to accept a difficult responsibility. So couplet 3 says that Rama handed Hanuman the betel token of the mission and sent him off, after which he burned Lanka and brought back news of Sita.
Lala in Braj and related Hindi dialects is a tender form of address for a beloved young boy, the way a family speaks of its darling son. Calling the warrior who shakes mountains 'Hanuman Lala' sets the tone of the whole aarti: it is a household lamp song as much as a hymn of praise. The text closes the circle in couplet 10, where his mother Anjana herself performs the aarti with a golden plate of burning camphor.
The Hanuman Chalisa is Tulsidas's composition of forty chaupais framed by dohas, and is recited as a complete prayer in its own right. The Hanuman Aarti is a much shorter song of a refrain and twelve couplets, tied to one ritual act: it accompanies the waving of the lamp, usually at the close of worship. It also includes an episode the Chalisa does not narrate, Hanuman's descent to Patala against Ahiravana, and it ends with a phala line saying that the singer reaches Vaikuntha.
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