Guided recitation 01
Gaṇapati Prayer
Source likely identified
Widely recited Gaṇeśa prayer
The attribution is credible; compare a named edition for exact readings.
01 · Devanāgarī
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटिसमप्रभ । निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ॥
02 · IAST transliteration
vakratuṇḍa mahākāya sūryakoṭisamaprabha | nirvighnaṃ kuru me deva sarvakāryeṣu sarvadā ||
03 · Learning rendering
O deity with a curved trunk and great body, whose radiance equals ten million suns: make all my undertakings free from obstacles, always.
Compact Guru Om Ka learning rendering. For close study, compare it with a named translation and edition.Word attention
Vocabulary in the verse
These are compact learning glosses, not claims that each word has one fixed English equivalent in every context.
- वक्रतुण्ड
- vakra-tuṇḍacurved-trunked
- महाकाय
- mahā-kāyagreat-bodied
- सूर्यकोटिसमप्रभ
- sūrya-koṭi-sama-prabhawhose radiance equals ten million suns
- निर्विघ्नम्
- nirvighnamfree from obstacles
- कुरु
- kurumake; do
- मे
- mefor me
- सर्वकार्येषु
- sarva-kāryeṣuin all undertakings
- सर्वदा
- sarvadāalways
Learning context
What to notice about this text
You may hear this prayer introduced as a sūkta. Here it is described more cautiously as a widely recited Gaṇapati prayer, because “sūkta” has a more specific textual sense in Vedic literature.