रामचन्द्राय जनकराजजामनोहराय
मामकाभीष्टदाय महितमङ्गलम्
कोसलेशाय मन्दहासदासपोषणाय
वासवादिविनुतसद्वराय मङ्गलम्
चारुमेघरूपाय चन्दनादिचर्चिताय
हारकटकशोभिताय भूरिमङ्गलम्
ललितरत्नकुण्डलाय तुलसीवनमालिकाय
जलदसदृशदेहाय चारुमङ्गलम्
देवकीसुपुत्राय देवदेवोत्तमाय
चापजातगुरुवराय सर्वमङ्गलम्
पुण्डरीकाक्षाय पूर्णचन्द्राननाय
अण्डजातवाहनाय अतुलमङ्गलम्
विमलरूपाय विविधवेदान्तवेद्याय
सुमुखचित्तकामिताय शुभगमङ्गलम्
रामदासमृदुलहृदयतामरसनिवासाय
स्वामिभद्रगिरिवराय सर्वमङ्गलम्
rāmacandrāya janakarājajāmanoharāya
māmakābhīṣṭadāya mahitamaṅgalam
kosaleśāya mandahāsadāsapoṣaṇāya
vāsavādivinutasadvarāya maṅgalam
cārumegharūpāya candanādicarcitāya
hārakaṭakaśobhitāya bhūrimaṅgalam
lalitaratnakuṇḍalāya tulasīvanamālikāya
jaladasadṛśadehāya cārumaṅgalam
devakīsuputrāya devadevottamāya
cāpajātaguruvarāya sarvamaṅgalam
puṇḍarīkākṣāya pūrṇacandrānanāya
aṇḍajātavāhanāya atulamaṅgalam
vimalarūpāya vividhavedāntavedyāya
sumukhacittakāmitāya śubhagamaṅgalam
rāmadāsamṛdulahṛdayatāmarasanivāsāya
svāmibhadragirivarāya sarvamaṅgalam
Meaning
1. To Ramachandra, who steals the heart of the daughter of King Janaka, who grants what I long for: great auspiciousness.
2. To the Lord of Kosala, of gentle smile, sustainer of his servants, best of givers, praised by Indra and the devas: auspiciousness.
3. To him whose form is a lovely rain cloud, anointed with sandal and the rest, adorned with necklace and bracelets: abundant auspiciousness.
4. To him with graceful jewelled earrings, wearing a garland of tulsi and wild flowers, whose body is like a rain cloud: lovely auspiciousness.
5. To the noble son of Devaki, highest among the gods of gods, the great teacher of the one born of the bow: all auspiciousness.
6. To the lotus-eyed one, whose face is the full moon, whose mount is the bird born of an egg: auspiciousness beyond compare.
7. To him of spotless form, known through the many Vedanta texts, longed for by the gentle-hearted: bright auspiciousness.
8. To the Lord who dwells in the soft lotus heart of Ramadasa, the Lord of the great hill Bhadragiri: all auspiciousness.
About this bhajan
In South India a concert does not simply stop; it is closed with a mangalam, a song wishing auspiciousness on Bhagwan, and Ramadas’s ‘Ramachandraya’ is the one most often sung. It is in Sanskrit, every verse ending in ‘mangalam’, and devotees stand for it as the arati is shown. One verse calls Rama the son of Devaki; for Ramadas, as for the bhajana tradition that sings him, Rama and Krishna are one Lord. The last verse places Rama in the soft lotus of Ramadasa’s heart and on the hill of Bhadragiri, where Gopanna built his temple.
te.wikisource.org, రామదాసు కీర్తనలు, ‘రామచంద్రాయ’ (public-domain printed collection), Telugu script transliterated to Devanagari; two readings (‘jalada-sadrsha’, ‘chapajata’) follow the commonly sung text, see docs/REVIEW.md