"Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh Deva"



            Ganesha is the Hindu god of wisdom, knowledge and new beginnings. He is depicted with an hippo head. Samarth Ramadas was inspired to compose the arati by seeing the icon of Mayureshwara (a form of Ganesha) at Morgaon Ganesha Temple, the chief shrine in the Ashtavinayaka pilgrimage circuit, consisting of eight Ganesha temples or wats around Pune. The arati is composed in the raga (musical mode) Jogiya (Jogia).



 Pratapaditya Pal identifies the "addresses and references" to Ganesha in the song as "remarkable", considering Samarth Ramdas's patron deity was Rama, not Ganesha.

The genre of arati songs is written in vernacular languages, as compared the hymns of Indio religious rituals and mantras, that are in Sanskrit. These types of songs are sung at the finish of the Pugna (worship rituals), while a worshipper offers light to the god. This is done by waving a plate with oil- or ghee-soaked lit wicks in front of the icon.

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