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Ganapathi Sukhkarta Dukhharta Aarti: sindoor-red Lord Ganesha on a throne as Maharashtrian devotees perform the aarti
The aarti before Ganesha, his body red with sindoor
Mantra · Samarth Ramdas's Marathi aarti to Ganesha, composed at Morgaon

Sukhkarta Dukhharta Aarti

सुखकर्ता दुःखहर्ता वार्ता विघ्नाची । नुरवी पुरवी प्रेम कृपा जयाची ॥ सर्वांगी सुंदर उटी शेंदुराची । कंठी झळके माळ मुक्ताफळांची ॥

Also known as Sukhakarta Dukhaharta

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

What the Sukhkarta Dukhharta Aarti is

Sukhkarta Dukhharta is the Marathi aarti to Ganesha that Maharashtra knows simply as Ganapatichi Aarti, the aarti of Ganapati. It was composed by Samarth Ramdas (1608-1682), a saint whose own chosen deity was Rama, and he signs it in the last stanza as 'dasa Ramacha', the servant of Rama. It is written in the spoken Marathi of his day rather than in Sanskrit, and is set in raga Jogiya. There are three stanzas, with the refrain 'jaya deva jaya deva jaya mangalamurti' sung after each one. The first stanza names Ganesha as giver of joy and remover of sorrow and pictures him smeared with vermilion paste, a string of pearls at his throat. The second dwells on adornment: a jewelled seat, sandal paste with kumkum and saffron, a diamond-set crown, belled anklets. The third lists his form, big-bellied, in yellow silk, a serpent tied at his waist, three-eyed, and closes with Ramdas asking him to come in trouble and guard at the final hour.

A Rama devotee before Mayureshwar at Morgaon

Morgaon, a village in the Baramati taluka of Pune district, holds the Mayureshwar temple, the chief shrine of the eight Ashtavinayaka temples of Ganesha. The temple's own published account relates that Samarth Ramdas reached Morgaon on one of his journeys and stood before Mayureshwar calling out 'Jai Jai Raghuveer Samarth', his cry of praise to Rama. Chintamani Maharaj, son of the saint Moraya Gosavi, who had done penance at this very temple, asked him to call on the deity with Moraya's name instead. Ramdas declined and kept to his cry for Rama. According to that account, darkness then fell over the place, Ramdas yielded and asked for mercy, and the verses with which he called on Ganesha were this aarti, composed there at Morgaon. A plainer account says only that Ramdas was moved to write it on seeing the image of Mayureshwar. The text itself keeps a trace of its author's loyalties: its closing stanza still signs off as the servant of Rama, and the art historian Pratapaditya Pal noted how remarkable its address to Ganesha is, coming from a poet whose patron deity was Rama.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiसुखकर्ता दुःखहर्ता वार्ता विघ्नाची । नुरवी पुरवी प्रेम कृपा जयाची ॥ सर्वांगी सुंदर उटी शेंदुराची । कंठी झळके माळ मुक्ताफळांची ॥
Tamilஸுககர்தா துஃகஹர்தா வார்தா விக்நாசீ । நுரவீ புரவீ ப்ரேம க்ருபா ஜயாசீ ॥ ஸர்வாம்கீ ஸும்தர உடீ ஶேம்துராசீ । கம்டீ சளகே மாள முக்தாபளாம்சீ ॥
Teluguసుఖకర్తా దుఃఖహర్తా వార్తా విఘ్నాచీ । నురవీ పురవీ ప్రేమ కృపా జయాచీ ॥ సర్వాంగీ సుందర ఉటీ శేందురాచీ । కంఠీ ఝళకే మాళ ముక్తాఫళాంచీ ॥
Kannadaಸುಖಕರ್ತಾ ದುಃಖಹರ್ತಾ ವಾರ್ತಾ ವಿಘ್ನಾಚೀ । ನುರವೀ ಪುರವೀ ಪ್ರೇಮ ಕೃಪಾ ಜಯಾಚೀ ॥ ಸರ್ವಾಂಗೀ ಸುಂದರ ಉಟೀ ಶೇಂದುರಾಚೀ । ಕಂಠೀ ಝಳಕೇ ಮಾಳ ಮುಕ್ತಾಫಳಾಂಚೀ ॥
Malayalamസുഖകര്താ ദുഃഖഹര്താ വാര്താ വിഘ്നാചീ । നുരവീ പുരവീ പ്രേമ കൃപാ ജയാചീ ॥ സര്വാംഗീ സുംദര ഉടീ ശേംദുരാചീ । കംഠീ ഝളകേ മാള മുക്താഫളാംചീ ॥
EnglishRoman transliterationsukhakartā duḥkhahartā vārtā vighnācī | nuravī puravī prema kṛpā jayācī || sarvāṃgī suṃdara uṭī śeṃdurācī | kaṃṭhī jhaḷake māḷa muktāphaḷāṃcī ||
“He brings joy and takes away sorrow, and leaves no trace of obstacles; his grace pours out love. His whole body is beautiful, smeared with vermilion paste, and a necklace of pearls shines at his throat.”
सुखकर्ता
sukhakartā — giver of joy
दुःखहर्ता
duḥkhahartā — remover of sorrow
वार्ता
vārtā — trace, mention
विघ्नाची
vighnācī — of obstacles
नुरवी
nuravī — leaves none of
पुरवी
puravī — bestows
प्रेम
prema — love
कृपा
kṛpā — grace
जयाची
jayācī — whose

Sukhkarta Dukhharta lyrics in full

Three stanzas. The refrain, 'jaya deva jaya deva jaya mangalamurti', is sung after each one; it is printed once, after the first.

All 4 verses, in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English, each with its meaning. Choose a script:

Download the Sukhkarta Dukhharta PDFAll 4 verses with their meanings, in Marathi. Free to print and keep.

Stanza 1

सुखकर्ता दुःखहर्ता वार्ता विघ्नाची ।
नुरवी पुरवी प्रेम कृपा जयाची ॥ सर्वांगी सुंदर उटी शेंदुराची ।
कंठी झळके माळ मुक्ताफळांची ॥

He brings joy and takes away sorrow, and leaves no trace of obstacles; his grace pours out love. His whole body is beautiful, smeared with vermilion paste, and a necklace of pearls shines at his throat.

Refrain

जय देव जय देव जय मंगलमूर्ती ।
दर्शनमात्रे मनकामना पुरती ॥

Victory to you, O God, victory to you, the embodiment of auspiciousness. The verse says that by merely seeing you, the wishes of the heart are fulfilled.

Stanza 2

रत्नखचित फरा तुज गौरीकुमरा ।
चंदनाची उटी कुंकुमकेशरा ॥ हिरे जडित मुकुट शोभतो बरा ।
रुणझुणती नूपुरे चरणी घागरिया ॥

O son of Gauri, a jewel-studded seat is offered to you, with sandal paste, kumkum and saffron. A diamond-studded crown sits finely on your head, and anklets with little bells jingle on your feet.

Stanza 3

लंबोदर पीतांबर फणिवरबंधना ।
सरळ सोंड वक्रतुंड त्रिनयना ॥ दास रामाचा वाट पाहे सदना ।
संकटी पावावे निर्वाणी रक्षावे सुरवरवंदना ॥

Big-bellied, dressed in yellow silk, with the king of serpents tied at your waist; straight trunk, curved mouth, three-eyed. Ramdas, the servant of Rama, waits for you at home: O one worshipped by the best of the gods, come to us in trouble and protect us at the final hour.

The syllable people get wrong

In jhaḷake ('shines', stanza 1) the ḷ is the Marathi retroflex ळ: curl the tongue tip back towards the roof of the mouth, as for a hard ḍ, and let the sound pass round its sides, rather than saying the plain English l. The same sound returns in māḷa, muktāphaḷāṃcī and saraḷa.

When the Sukhkarta Dukhharta Aarti is chanted

Weekday. Tuesday

Festival. Ganesh Chaturthi (Ganeshotsav)

Questions

Samarth Ramdas, the seventeenth-century Marathi saint (1608-1682), composed it. He names himself in the third stanza with the words 'dasa Ramacha vata pahe sadana', the servant of Rama waits at home. Ramdas was a devotee of Rama rather than of Ganesha, which is why scholars such as Pratapaditya Pal have remarked on how warmly the aarti addresses Ganesha. The Mayureshwar temple at Morgaon holds that he composed it there.
It is the second line of the refrain. 'Darshana-matre' means by the mere sight, 'mana-kamana' is the wish of the heart, and 'purati' means are fulfilled. Taken together, the refrain says that simply seeing Ganesha, the 'mangalamurti' or embodiment of auspiciousness named in the line before, fulfils what the heart longs for. It is a statement of the singer's faith about darshan, the act of beholding the deity, rather than a promise.
The line opens the third stanza and describes Ganesha's form: 'lambodara', with a large belly; 'pitambara', dressed in yellow silk; and 'phanivara-bandhana', with the king of serpents bound round him as a girdle. Some printed texts read 'phani varavandana' instead, but that reading does not make sense in context and is treated as a copying error. The same stanza goes on to his straight trunk, curved face and three eyes.
It is in Marathi. Unlike the older Sanskrit hymns to Ganesha, Ramdas wrote it in the everyday language of seventeenth-century Maharashtra. A few words, such as lambodara, vakratunda and pitambara, are Sanskrit names set inside Marathi sentences, while forms such as vighnachi and jayachi are plainly Marathi grammar. The raga traditionally named for it is Jogiya.
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