Worship
Prayers & Shlokas
Traditional Sanskrit hymns, in Hindi and English, offered in worship at the temple, each with a plain-English note on what it's for.
Ayyappa
Dakshinamoorthy (Shiva)
Dhanvantari (Vishnu)
Durga
Ganesha
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्य कॊटि समप्रभ ।
Vakratunda Mahakaya
This is the prayer Hindus say before starting almost anything important, a meeting, a trip, a wedding, asking for help clearing away whatever might get in the way.
गजाननं भूतगणादि सेवितं कपित्थ जम्बू फलसार भक्षितम् ।
Gajananam Bhoota Ganaadhi
A short prayer of gratitude to Ganesha, thanking him for clearing away life's obstacles and worries.
कुम्भचण्डश्चतुर्बाहुः टङ्कशूलासि दण्डधृक् ।
Shri Ganesha Kumbha Chandikeshwarar
A prayer to a guardian form of Ganesha, asking that the blessings of that day's Ganesha worship reach the devotee.
Garuda
Gayatri
Guru (Sage Agastya)
Hanuman
Kamakshi (Devi)
सर्व मङ्गल माङ्गल्यॆ शिवॆ सर्वार्थ सादकॆ।
Sarva Mangala Mangalye
One of the most beloved and widely recited Hindu prayers, calling on the Divine Mother as the source of all good fortune and the one who grants every righteous wish.
सृष्टि स्थिति विनाशानां शक्ति भूते सनातनि |
Srishti Sthiti Vinashanam
A prayer honoring the Divine Mother as the eternal power behind creation, preservation, and destruction, the cycle that everything in the universe moves through.
Khodiyar Mata (Devi)
Krishna
Mahalakshmi
Nagendra (Serpent deities)
Narasimha (Vishnu)
Nataraja (Shiva)
Parvati
ॐ देवी पार्वति महादेव्यै नमः॥
Om Devi Parvati Mahadevyai Namah
A brief, simple greeting to Parvati, Shiva's wife and the divine mother figure in the Shiva family.
माता च पार्वती दॆवि पिता दॆवॊ महॆश्वर:।
Mata Cha Parvati Devi
A prayer that describes Parvati and Shiva as a devotee's divine mother and father, and every fellow devotee as family.
Raghavendra
Rama
Saraswati
Satyanarayana (Vishnu)
Shanmukha (Kartikeya)
Shiva
बिल्वाष्टकम्
Bilvashtakam
A hymn of eight verses recited while offering bilva (bael) leaves to Shiva, one of the simplest and most cherished offerings in his worship, each verse describing a different blessing that comes from it.
लिङ्गाष्टकम्
Lingashtakam
A devotional hymn of eight verses, each one bowing to the Shiva lingam as a symbol of Shiva's boundless, form-beyond-form nature.
नमस्तॆ अस्तु भगवान् विश्वॆश्वराय महादॆवाय
Namaste Astu Bhagwan
A prayer that greets Shiva by many of his names and roles, each one describing a different part of who he is, from destroyer of time itself to conqueror of death.
नीलकण्ठ पतांबोज पदस्फुरित मानस ।
Shri Shiva Dhvani Chandikeshwarar
A prayer to a guardian form of Shiva, asking that the blessings of that day's Shiva worship reach the devotee.