Devotional Library
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A growing library of sacred texts — chalisas, aartis, stotras, mantras and more — each presented in the original Devanagari, with transliteration and an original English translation, verse by verse.
चालीसा
Chalisa
A chalisa is a forty-verse devotional hymn — simple, rhythmic chaupais sung to invoke a deity for blessing and protection.
आरती
Aarti
Devotional songs of light, sung while offering the lamp during worship.
स्तोत्रम्
Stotram
Hymns of praise that extol the names, forms and deeds of the divine.
मन्त्र
Mantra
Sacred sound-formulas for invocation, protection and meditation.
नामावली
Namavali
Litanies of the sacred names of a deity — the 32-name and 108-name lists.
कवचम्
Kavacham
Protective “armour” hymns that invoke the deity as a shield around the devotee.
सुन्दरकाण्ड
Sundarkand
The fifth book of Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas, beloved for Hanuman’s journey to Lanka.
हनुमान बाहुक
Hanuman Bahuk
Tulsidas’s forty-four-verse appeal to Hanuman for relief from affliction and pain.
नाम रामायणम्
Nama Ramayanam
The whole Ramayana sung in 108 names of Shri Rama — from the Bala Kanda to the Uttara Kanda.
अष्टकम्
Ashtakam
Eight-verse hymns of concentrated devotion to a chosen deity.
दुर्गा सप्तशती
Durga Saptashati
The seven hundred verses celebrating the Goddess across thirteen chapters, with its traditional apparatus.