Dharmik Gyan — Mantras & Their Meaning
The mantras that are actually chanted in the pujas on this site, in Devanagari with transliteration, a plain-language meaning, and when each is traditionally used.
Why so few mantras?
This section carries a small, carefully checked set rather than a large library. Every text here is short and universally attested, so its wording is stable across sources. Longer compositions are added only when they can be verified against a printed edition — a mantra published with a wrong syllable is worse than one not published at all, and the risk grows with length.
Gayatri Mantra
Rig Veda 3.62.10 — the prayer for illumined intellect
ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः…
We meditate on the adorable splendour of Savitr, the divine vivifier. May that light impel our understanding. It is addr…
Read the full mantra →Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra
Rig Veda 7.59.12 — the great death-conquering mantra
ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे…
We worship the three-eyed one, fragrant and nourishing. As a ripe cucumber is released from its stem, may we be freed fr…
Read the full mantra →Vakratunda Mahakaya
The invocation of Ganesh before any beginning
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय…
O curved-trunk one, great of body, radiant as ten million suns — make my undertakings free of obstacles, always and in a…
Read the full mantra →Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah
The peace invocation
ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः…
May all be happy, may all be free from illness, may all see what is auspicious, may no one suffer. The threefold shanti …
Read the full mantra →Shani Beej Mantra
For Sade Sati and Shani dosh
ॐ प्रां प्रीं प्रौं सः शनैश्चराय नमः
Salutations to Shanaishchara, the slow-moving one. A beej (seed) mantra carries no descriptive sentence; the syllables t…
Read the full mantra →Rahu Beej Mantra
For Kaal Sarp and Rahu dosh
ॐ भ्रां भ्रीं भ्रौं सः राहवे नमः
Salutations to Rahu. Rahu is the north lunar node — a shadow graha with no body — and is associated with confusion, sudd…
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