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Surya (Aditya) Surya Arghya Mantra: devotees waist-deep in a river at sunrise pouring water from brass pots to the rising sun, offering baskets on the bank
At Chhath dawn, devotees stand in a river and pour water from brass pots to the rising sun
Mantra · The verses said over water poured to the sun at Chhath and sandhya

Surya Arghya Mantra

एहि सूर्य सहस्रांशो तेजोराशे जगत्पते । अनुकम्पय मां भक्त्या गृहाणार्घ्यं दिवाकर ॥

Also known as Ehi Surya Sahasramsho

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

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What the Surya Arghya Mantra is

The Surya Arghya Mantra is not a single verse but a small family of formulas said while water is poured out to the sun, and this page prints the eight that ritual books carry. Mantra 1, 'Ehi Surya sahasramsho', calls the thousand-rayed sun to come and take the water; a near form of it is the invitation in the Bhavishya Purana, Brahma Parva 143.27. Some sandhya books end it 'deva ... namo'stu te' instead of 'bhaktya ... divakara'. Mantras 2 to 4 hail the sun as the fire Jatavedas and ask it to accept the offering; with Mantra 5, which adds his consort Sanjna, they are the arghya verses of the Chhath vrata kathas. Mantra 6 is the prose formula of the daily sandhya, said after the Gayatri, giving the water away as 'no longer mine'. Mantra 7, to Vivasvan and Savitr, is Kalika Purana 57.178, and Verse 1, 'Namah savitre', closes the set as praise. The bow 'Japakusuma' said afterwards belongs to the Navagraha Stotram page.

Sukanya learns the vow by the lake

The Chhath manuals set these verses inside a story within a story. According to the Ravi-shashthi vrata katha, which the printed text closes as part of the Bhavishyottara Purana, Vaishampayana tells Janamejaya how the exiled Pandavas worried over feeding the sages who followed them into the forest, and how their priest Dhaumya steadied Draupadi with an older tale. Princess Sukanya, daughter of King Sharyati, had once pricked two glowing points in an anthill with a thorn, not knowing they were the eyes of the sage Chyavana, buried there in penance; to make amends the king gave her in marriage to the blinded sage. In the month of Kartika, going to a lake for water, she came upon Naga maidens worshipping the sun and asked what vow they kept. They taught her the fast of the bright Shashthi, the night of waking and the arghya at sunrise, with the words 'Namo'stu suryaya', 'Namo bhagavate tubhyam' and 'Ehi surya', followed by 'Namah savitre'. The katha says Chyavana's sight returned, and that Draupadi then kept the same vow. In the companion Pratihara Shashthi katha a wandering brahmin teaches the rite to a household in distress, and there the water, with red sandal, red flowers and fruit, is offered at a river bank with the verse that names Sanjna.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiएहि सूर्य सहस्रांशो तेजोराशे जगत्पते । अनुकम्पय मां भक्त्या गृहाणार्घ्यं दिवाकर ॥
Tamilஏஹி ஸூர்ய ஸஹஸ்ராம்ஶோ தேஜோராஶே ஜகத்பதே । அநுகம்பய மாம் பக்த்யா க்ருஹாணார்க்யம் திவாகர ॥
Teluguఏహి సూర్య సహస్రాంశో తేజోరాశే జగత్పతే । అనుకమ్పయ మాం భక్త్యా గృహాణార్ఘ్యం దివాకర ॥
Kannadaಏಹಿ ಸೂರ್ಯ ಸಹಸ್ರಾಂಶೋ ತೇಜೋರಾಶೇ ಜಗತ್ಪತೇ । ಅನುಕಮ್ಪಯ ಮಾಂ ಭಕ್ತ್ಯಾ ಗೃಹಾಣಾರ್ಘ್ಯಂ ದಿವಾಕರ ॥
Malayalamഏഹി സൂര്യ സഹസ്രാംശോ തേജോരാശേ ജഗത്പതേ । അനുകമ്പയ മാം ഭക്ത്യാ ഗൃഹാണാര്ഘ്യം ദിവാകര ॥
EnglishRoman transliterationehi sūrya sahasrāṃśo tejorāśe jagatpate | anukampaya māṃ bhaktyā gṛhāṇārghyaṃ divākara ||
“Come, O Surya, thousand-rayed one, heap of radiance, master of the world. Be kind to me, O Divakara, maker of the day, and accept this water offered with devotion.”
एहि
ehi — come
सूर्य
sūrya — O Surya
सहस्रांशो
sahasrāṃśo — O thousand-rayed one
तेजोराशे
tejorāśe — O heap of radiance
जगत्पते
jagatpate — O master of the world
अनुकम्पय
anukampaya — be kind to
मां
māṃ — me
भक्त्या
bhaktyā — with devotion
गृहाणार्घ्यं
gṛhāṇārghyaṃ — accept the water-offering
दिवाकर
divākara — O maker of the day

Surya Arghya Mantra lyrics in full

Seven arghya formulas and one closing verse of praise, printed without accent marks.

All 8 verses, in Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English, each with its meaning. Choose a script:

Download the Surya Arghya Mantra PDFAll 8 verses with their meanings, in Sanskrit. Free to print and keep.

Mantra 1

एहि सूर्य सहस्रांशो तेजोराशे जगत्पते ।
अनुकम्पय मां भक्त्या गृहाणार्घ्यं दिवाकर ॥

Come, O Surya, thousand-rayed one, heap of radiance, master of the world. Be kind to me, O Divakara, maker of the day, and accept this water offered with devotion.

Mantra 2

नमोऽस्तु सूर्याय सहस्रभानवे नमोऽस्तु वैश्वानरजातवेदसे ।
त्वमेव चार्घ्यं प्रतिगृह्ण देव देवाधिदेवाय नमो नमस्ते ॥

Salutation to Surya of a thousand beams; salutation to him who is the fire Vaishvanara, the all-knowing Jatavedas. O god, you yourself receive this offering; to you, god above the gods, salutation again and again.

Mantra 3

नमो भगवते तुभ्यं नमस्ते जातवेदसे ।
दत्तमर्घ्यं मया भानो त्वं गृहाण नमोऽस्तु ते ॥

Salutation to you, the blessed one; salutation to you, Jatavedas. O Bhanu, shining one, accept the water I have offered; salutation to you.

Mantra 4

ज्योतिर्मय विभो सूर्य तेजोराशे जगत्पते ।
अनुकम्पय मां भक्त्या गृहाणार्घ्यं दिवाकर ॥

O Surya, all-pervading one made of light, heap of radiance, master of the world: be kind to me, O Divakara, and accept this water offered with devotion.

Mantra 5

एहि सूर्य सहस्रांशो तेजोराशे जगत्पते ।
गृहाणार्घ्यं मया दत्तं संज्ञया सहित प्रभो ॥

Come, O Surya, thousand-rayed one, heap of radiance, master of the world. O master, together with your consort Sanjna, accept the water I have offered.

Mantra 6

ब्रह्मस्वरूपिणे सूर्यनारायणाय इदमर्घ्यं दत्तं न मम ॥

This water is given to Surya Narayana, who has the form of Brahma; it is no longer mine. (The morning form; the manuals say it after the Gayatri, and use 'Rudra' at midday and 'Vishnu' in the evening.)

Mantra 7

नमो विवस्वते ब्रह्मन् भास्वते विष्णुतेजसे ।
जगत्सवित्रे शुचये सवित्रे कर्मदायिने ॥

Salutation, O Brahman, to Vivasvan, the shining one, the radiance of Vishnu; to the pure one who brings the world to birth, to Savitr who gives the fruit of action.

Verse 1

नमः सवित्रे जगदेकचक्षुषे जगत्प्रसूतिस्थितिनाशहेतवे ।
त्रयीमयाय त्रिगुणात्मधारिणे विरिञ्चिनारायणशङ्करात्मने ॥

Salutation to Savitr, the one eye of the world, the cause of its birth, keeping and dissolution; to him who is made of the three Vedas, who bears the three gunas, and whose self is Brahma, Narayana and Shiva.

The syllable people get wrong

In Mantra 1, sahasrāṃśo is often said and printed 'sahastramsho' with an extra t, a Hindi spelling habit; the word is sahasra (thousand) plus aṃśu (ray), so say sa-has-rām-sho, with the nasal ṃ before the ś and no t anywhere.

When the Surya Arghya Mantra is chanted

Festival. Chhath Puja, at the dusk and dawn arghya

Questions

It is a verse of the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, in the story of Tapati. King Samvarana has fallen in love with Tapati, daughter of the sun, and the sage Vasishtha goes to Surya on his behalf and praises him with this and the verses before it; Surya then gives Tapati in marriage. It is also found in the Skanda Purana's Avanti Khanda, and Chhath manuals print it straight after the arghya mantras. It hails Savitr as the one eye of the world and as Brahma, Narayana and Shiva in one.
Sanjna is the wife of Surya, a daughter of Tvashtr, the divine craftsman, and in the Markandeya Purana and the Harivamsha the mother of Manu, Yama and Yamuna. Those texts tell how she left her shadow, Chhaya, in her place because she could not bear the sun's heat. The Chhath manuals say the dawn arghya on Saptami is offered to Surya together with Sanjna, which is why Mantra 5 asks him to accept the water 'with Sanjna'.
Mantra 6 is the morning form. The sandhya manuals that print it address the sun as having the form of Brahma at dawn, and change the word to Rudra at midday and to Vishnu in the evening, so that the three junctions of the day honour the three deities in turn. The closing words 'idam arghyam dattam na mama' mean that the water has been given and no longer belongs to the giver. The manuals place the formula after the Gayatri has been said over the water.
No. Mantras 1 to 3 and Verse 1 also stand in a different hymn of the same name in the Bhavishyottara Purana, set as a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna. The Bhavishya Purana's chapter on sun worship likewise follows the invitation of Mantra 1 with the offering of arghya and a recitation of the Aditya Hridaya. The Ramayana hymn that Agastya teaches Rama on the battlefield is another text, printed on its own page.
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