Pauranic · पौराणिकMantra

Anjaneya Gayatri

The Gayatri addressed to Hanuman, following the three-part pattern of the deity Gayatris.

Anjaneya Gayatri the Gayatri verseedition

Sanskrit · संस्कृत

ॐ आञ्जनेयाय विद्महे वायुपुत्राय धीमहि । तन्नो हनुमत् प्रचोदयात् ॥

oṃ āñjaneyāya vidmahe vāyuputrāya dhīmahi । tanno hanumat pracodayāt ॥

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Meaning

Om. May we know the son of Anjani; may we meditate on the son of the wind. May Hanuman therefore impel us.

This rendering is by a DharmSetu editor, not a quotation from a published translation. Compare with the public-domain translation.

A Hindi meaning has not been written for this mantra yet. Hindi is authored by a named editor rather than machine-translated, so it arrives more slowly.

How to recite

Recited at the three junctures of the day where the Gayatri is. The elision in तन्नो is *tat* + *naḥ*.

Repetitions: 3 · 108
Time: Dawn, Noon, Dusk

Pronunciation key — sounds commonly got wrong

ट ठ ड ढ ण · ṭ ṭh ḍ ḍh ṇ: Retroflex — the tongue curls back and touches the roof of the mouth. Distinct from the dental त थ द ध न, where the tongue touches the teeth.
श ष स · ś ṣ s: Three different sounds: ś as in “shy”, ṣ retroflex and further back, s plain. Collapsing them changes words.
ः · ḥ (visarga): A soft outward breath echoing the preceding vowel — not a hard “ha”.
ं · ṃ (anusvara): Nasalises the vowel; the closing sound follows the consonant that comes next.
Long vs short vowels — a / ā, i / ī, u / ū: Vowel length is meaningful in Sanskrit. Hold the macron vowels roughly twice as long.
Aspirated consonants — kh, gh, ch, th, dh, ph, bh: A distinct puff of breath. ph is an aspirated p, never an English “f”.

Context

One of the deity Gayatris — a family of mantras that borrow the *vidmahe / dhīmahi / pracodayāt* frame of the Vedic Gayatri and substitute a particular deity. They are **not Vedic**: the frame is Vedic, the substitutions are later and devotional, and this site classifies them as such rather than letting the borrowed shape imply Vedic authority. The three verbs are the whole structure — *may we know*, *may we meditate*, *may he impel*. Knowledge, contemplation, then the request that the deity move the reciter, which is the only petition in the mantra.

Shadanga — the six limbs

The traditional analytic frame for a mantra. Blank limbs are simply not recorded for this text.

devata: Hanuman

Recited at / traditionally recited for

Dhyana (meditation)Daily sandhya

Classified as Pauranic — From the Puranas. Most widely recited deity mantras belong here. Basis for this classification.

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