Ganesh Chalisa ( hi, गणेश चालीसा, "'' Forty chaupais on

Ganesh Ganesha ( sa, गणेश, ), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped Deva_(Hinduism), deities in the Hindu deities, Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in Ganapatya sect. His image is ...

''") is a

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

devotional hymn (stotra) addressed to Lord

. Literally it is forty Chaupais on Lord Ganesh. It is written in the

Awadhi Awadhi (; ), also known as Audhi (), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern India and Nepal. It is primarily spoken in the Awadh region of present-day Uttar Pradesh, India. The name ''Awadh'' is connected to Ayodhya, the ancient city, w ...

language. The Ganesh Chalisa has gained enormous popularity among the modern-day

s. Many of them recite it daily as a

prayer Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity or a deified a ...

. Each of the forty verses of the Ganesh Chalisa conveys one particular form of blessing and, depending on the ''

Bhava The Sanskrit word bhava (भव) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin,Monier Monier-Williams (1899), Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Archiveभव bhava but also habitual or emotional te ...

'' or '' Shraddha'' (faith and devotion) of the devotee, how the fruits of the particular verse are attained.

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Ganesh Chalisa in Hindi
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