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Durga Jai Ambe Gauri Aarti: eight-armed Goddess Ambe on a tiger with Bhairava and Hanuman as devotees hold aarti lamps
Ambe on her tiger with Bhairava and Hanuman, and the aarti lamps
Mantra · Shivanand Swami's Hindi aarti to Amba, refrain plus twelve stanzas

Jai Ambe Gauri Aarti

जय अम्बे गौरी मैया जय श्यामा गौरी । तुमको निशिदिन ध्यावत हरि ब्रह्मा शिवरी ॥

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

What the Jai Ambe Gauri Aarti is

Jai Ambe Gauri is an aarti, a lamp-waving song, addressed to the Goddess as Ambe, the Mother, and as Gauri and Shyama Gauri, the fair and the dark. It is in Hindi, not Sanskrit, and its closing stanza carries the composer's signature, 'kahat Shivanand Swami'. The text printed here has a refrain and twelve stanzas, the count and order of the Gita Press Aarti-Sangrah and other popular editions. The refrain is sung again after every stanza. The sequence moves from her face to her battles to her household: stanzas 1 to 4 describe her appearance, from the vermilion in her hair parting to the pearl at her nose; stanzas 5 and 6 list the demons she destroyed; stanza 7 names her as Brahmani, Rudrani and Kamala; stanza 8 brings in the Yoginis and Bhairava; stanza 11 describes the aarti plate itself, and stanza 12 states what the singer receives.

A Surat poet and his signature line

The aarti has no origin story of its own. What tradition supplies is a name. The last stanza is signed by Shivanand Swami, and popular accounts identify him with Shivanand Vamdev Pandya, a Nagar Brahmin poet from Surat in Gujarat. One account places his birth in 1541 and says he lived and composed on the banks of the Narmada; his aartis and bhajans were later gathered into a collection compiled by G. T. Panchigwar, a chief engineer of the Narmada Project. The same poet is credited with the Gujarati aarti 'Jay Adhya Shakti'. For that Gujarati hymn, a fuller account exists: according to one local account, his family served the Markand Muni ashram and an old Ambaji temple at Mandwa Buzurg, a Narmada village between Bharuch and Ankleshwar, and at about sixty, while meditating near that temple at sunset, he had a vision of the four-armed Goddess and composed the aarti around 1601. None of this is tied to the Hindi Jai Ambe Gauri in particular, and no critical edition or dated manuscript of the Hindi text has been traced, so the attribution should be read as traditional rather than proven.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiजय अम्बे गौरी मैया जय श्यामा गौरी । तुमको निशिदिन ध्यावत हरि ब्रह्मा शिवरी ॥
Tamilஜய அம்பே கௌரீ மையா ஜய ஶ்யாமா கௌரீ । துமகோ நிஶிதிந த்யாவத ஹரி ப்ரஹ்மா ஶிவரீ ॥
Teluguజయ అమ్బే గౌరీ మైయా జయ శ్యామా గౌరీ । తుమకో నిశిదిన ధ్యావత హరి బ్రహ్మా శివరీ ॥
Kannadaಜಯ ಅಮ್ಬೇ ಗೌರೀ ಮೈಯಾ ಜಯ ಶ್ಯಾಮಾ ಗೌರೀ । ತುಮಕೋ ನಿಶಿದಿನ ಧ್ಯಾವತ ಹರಿ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾ ಶಿವರೀ ॥
Malayalamജയ അമ്ബേ ഗൌരീ മൈയാ ജയ ശ്യാമാ ഗൌരീ । തുമകോ നിശിദിന ധ്യാവത ഹരി ബ്രഹ്മാ ശിവരീ ॥
EnglishRoman transliterationjaya ambe gaurī maiyā jaya śyāmā gaurī | tumako niśidina dhyāvata hari brahmā śivarī ||
“Glory to you, Ambe Gauri; glory to you, Mother Shyama Gauri. Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva meditate on you night and day.”
जय
jaya — glory
अम्बे
ambe — O Mother (Amba)
गौरी
gaurī — fair one, Gauri
मैया
maiyā — Mother
जय
jaya — glory
श्यामा
śyāmā — dark one
गौरी
gaurī — Gauri
तुमको
tumako — on you
निशिदिन
niśidina — night and day
ध्यावत
dhyāvata — meditate
हरि
hari — Vishnu
ब्रह्मा
brahmā — Brahma
शिवरी
śivarī — and Shiva

Jai Ambe Gauri 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

जय अम्बे गौरी मैया जय श्यामा गौरी ।
तुमको निशिदिन ध्यावत हरि ब्रह्मा शिवरी ॥

Glory to you, Ambe Gauri; glory to you, Mother Shyama Gauri. Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva meditate on you night and day.

Stanza 1

माँग सिन्दूर विराजत टीको मृगमद को ।
उज्ज्वल से दोउ नैना चन्द्रवदन नीको ॥

Vermilion shines in the parting of your hair, and a mark of musk is on your forehead. Both your eyes are bright, and your moon-like face is lovely.

Stanza 2

कनक समान कलेवर रक्ताम्बर राजै ।
रक्तपुष्प गल माला कण्ठन पर साजै ॥

Your body is like gold and you are radiant in red garments. A garland of red flowers adorns your neck.

Stanza 3

केहरि वाहन राजत खड्ग खप्परधारी ।
सुर-नर-मुनि-जन सेवत तिनके दुखहारी ॥

You shine seated on the lion, holding a sword and a skull-bowl. Gods, men and sages serve you, and you remove their sorrows.

Stanza 4

कानन कुण्डल शोभित नासाग्रे मोती ।
कोटिक चन्द्र दिवाकर सम राजत ज्योति ॥

Earrings grace your ears and a pearl hangs at the tip of your nose. Your radiance shines like millions of moons and suns.

Stanza 5

शुम्भ-निशुम्भ बिदारे महिषासुर घाती ।
धूम्र विलोचन नैना निशिदिन मदमाती ॥

You tore apart Shumbha and Nishumbha and slew Mahishasura. Your eyes, which destroyed Dhumralochana, are ever filled with divine intoxication.

Stanza 6

चण्ड-मुण्ड संहारे शोणित बीज हरे ।
मधु-कैटभ दोउ मारे सुर भयहीन करे ॥

You destroyed Chanda and Munda and ended Raktabija. You killed both Madhu and Kaitabha and freed the gods from fear.

Stanza 7

ब्रह्माणी रुद्राणी तुम कमला रानी ।
आगम-निगम-बखानी तुम शिव पटरानी ॥

You are Brahmani, Rudrani and Queen Kamala (Lakshmi). The Agamas and Vedas praise you, and you are the chief queen of Shiva.

Stanza 8

चौंसठ योगिनी मंगल गावत नृत्य करत भैरूँ ।
बाजत ताल मृदंगा अरु बाजत डमरु ॥

The sixty-four Yoginis sing auspicious songs and Bhairava dances. Cymbals and the mridanga drum play, and the damaru drum sounds too.

Stanza 9

तुम ही जग की माता तुम ही हो भरता ।
भक्तन की दुःख हरता सुख सम्पत्ति करता ॥

You alone are the mother of the world, and you alone sustain it. You take away the sorrows of your devotees and give them happiness and prosperity.

Stanza 10

भुजा चार अति शोभित वर-मुद्रा धारी ।
मनवान्छित फल पावत सेवत नर-नारी ॥

Your four arms are very beautiful, one showing the boon-giving gesture. The verse says the men and women who serve you gain the fruits they wish for.

Stanza 11

कंचन थाल विराजत अगर कपूर बाती ।
श्रीमालकेतु में राजत कोटि रतन ज्योति ॥

A golden plate holds agaru incense, camphor and the lamp wick. In Shrimalaketu your light shines like millions of jewels.

Stanza 12

श्री अम्बेजी की आरती जो कोई नर गावै ।
कहत शिवानन्द स्वामी सुख सम्पत्ति पावै ॥

Shivanand Swami says that whoever sings this aarti of Shri Ambe gains happiness and prosperity.

The syllable people get wrong

In the refrain, niśidina ('night and day') has four syllables, ni-shi-di-na, from niśi (night) and dina (day); it is often sung and even printed as the three-syllable 'nish-din', which drops the short i after the ś.

When the Jai Ambe Gauri Aarti is chanted

Weekday. Friday

Festival. Navaratri, at the morning and evening aarti

Questions

The closing stanza says 'kahat Shivanand Swami', 'so says Shivanand Swami', which is the poet signing the aarti. Popular sources identify him with Shivanand Vamdev Pandya, a Nagar Brahmin poet of Surat, born, by one account, in 1541, who lived and wrote on the Narmada. The identification comes from tradition and the popular press; no dated manuscript of this Hindi aarti has been traced to confirm it.
Stanzas 5 and 6 name Shumbha and Nishumbha, Mahishasura, Dhumralochana, Chanda and Munda, Raktabija (as 'shonit bij', blood-seed) and Madhu and Kaitabha. All of them come from the Devi Mahatmya, the 700-verse text inside the Markandeya Purana. The aarti does not follow its order: the Devi Mahatmya begins with Madhu and Kaitabha and ends with Shumbha and Nishumbha, while the aarti opens with Shumbha and Nishumbha and closes with Madhu and Kaitabha.
The aarti does not choose one. The refrain calls her Ambe Gauri and Shyama Gauri; stanza 3 seats her on a lion with a sword, the form of Durga; stanza 7 calls her Brahmani (the power of Brahma), Rudrani, Kamala, a name of Lakshmi, and the chief queen of Shiva. The text treats these as names of the one Mother whom, the refrain says, Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva themselves meditate on.
No. They are two different songs in two languages. Jay Adhya Shakti is a Gujarati aarti, popularly dated to around 1601 and said to have been composed at Mandwa Buzurg on the Narmada. Jai Ambe Gauri is in Hindi, with a refrain and twelve stanzas. What links them is the poet: tradition credits both to Shivanand Vamdev Pandya of Surat, and both are commonly sung to the Goddess Amba.
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