। ॥namo namo durge sukh karanī| namo namo aṃbe dukh haranī||
Durga Chalisa
श्रीदुर्गाचालीसा
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। ॥niraṃkār hai jyoti tumhārī| tihūm̐ lok phailī ujiyārī||
। ॥sasi lalāṭ mukh mahā bisālā| netra lāl bhṛkuṭī bikarālā||
। ॥rūp mātu ko adhik suhāve| daras karat jan ati sukh pāve||
। ॥tum saṃsār sakti lay kīnhā| pālan hetu anna dhan dīnhā||
। ॥annapūrṇā huī jag pālā| tum hī ādi suṃdarī bālā||
। ॥pralayakāl sab nāsan hārī| tum gaurī siv saṃkar pyārī||
। ॥sivajogī tumhare gun gāveṃ| brahmā biṣṇu tumheṃ nit dhyāveṃ||
। ॥rūp sarasvati ko tum dhārā| de subuddhi ṛṣi muninha ubārā||
। ॥dharā rūp narasiṃh ko aṃbā| paragaṭ bhaī phār̤ kar khaṃbā||
। ॥racchā kari prahalād bacāyo| hiranākus ko svarga paṭhāyo||
। ॥lachamī rūp dharo jag māhīṃ| śrī nārāyan aṃg samāhīṃ||
। ॥chīr siṃdhu meṃ karat bilāsā| dayā siṃdhu dījai man āsā||
। ॥hiṃgalāj meṃ tumhīṃ bhavānī| mahimā amit na jāy bakhānī||
। ॥mātaṃgī dhūmāvati mātā| bhuvanesvari bagalā sukh dātā||
। ॥śrī bhairav tārā jag tārini| chinnabhāl bhav duḥkh nivārini||
। ॥kehari bāhan soh bhavānī| lāṃgur bīr calat agavānī||
। ॥kar meṃ khappar khar̤ag birājai| jāko dekh kāl ḍar bhājai||
। ॥sohai astra aur tirasūlā| jāte uṭhat satru hiy sūlā||
। ॥nagarakoṭ meṃ tumhī birājat| tihūm̐ lok meṃ ḍaṃkā bājat||
। ॥suṃbh nisuṃbh dānav tum māre| rakta bīj saṃkhan saṃhāre||
। ॥mahiṣāsur nṛp ati abhimānī| jehi agh bhār mahī akulānī||
। ॥rūp karāl kālī ko dhārā| sen sahit tum tihi saṃhārā||
। ॥parī gār̤h saṃtan par jab jab| bhaī sahāy mātu tum tab tab||
। ॥amar purī auroṃ sab lokā| tav mahimā sab rahai asokā||
। ॥jvālā meṃ hai jyoti tumhārī| tumheṃ sadā pūjeṃ naranārī||
। ॥prem bhakti se jo jas gāvai| dukh dāridra nikaṭ nahi āvai||
। ॥dhyāve tumheṃ jo nar man lāī| janma maran tāko chuṭi jāī||
। ॥jogī sur muni kahat pukārī| jog na ho bin sakti tumhārī||
। ॥saṃkar ācāraj tap kīnho| kām krodh jīti sab līnho||
। ॥nisidin dhyān dharo saṃkar ko| kāhu kāl nahi sumiro tumako||
। ॥sakti rūp ko maram na pāyo| sakti gaī tab man pachitāyo||
। ॥saranāgat hvai kīrti bakhānī| jay jay jay jagadaṃb bhavānī||
। ॥bhaī prasanna ādi jagadaṃbā| daī sakti nahi kīnha bilaṃbā||
। ॥moko mātu kaṣṭa ati ghero| tum bin kaun hare dukh mero||
। ॥āsā tṛsnā nipaṭ satāvai| ripu mūrakh mohi ati ḍarapāvai||
। ॥satru nās kījai maharānī| sumirauṃ ekacit tumahi bhavānī||
। ॥karau kṛpā he mātu dayālā| ṛddhi siddhi de karahu nihālā||
। ॥jab lagi jiyauṃ dayāphal pāūm̐| tumharau jas maiṃ sadā sunāūm̐||
। ॥durgā cālīsā jo koī gāvai| sab sukh bhog param pad pāvai||
। ॥devīdās saran nij jānī| karahu kṛpā jagadaṃb bhavānī||
Original: Traditional; its last chaupai names देवीदास, whose identity and date are unverified. Text follows श्रीदुर्गाचालीसा, Gita Press, Gorakhpur, booklet 1033, pp. 3-9, word for word (spelling, word division and punctuation as printed), read from the page images. Checked against the Durga Saptashati with Durga Chalisa of Lakshmi Publication, pp. 292-295; 51 चालीसा संग्रह आरतियों सहित, Randhir Prakashan, Haridwar, 2004, pp. 173-176; an undated pocket booklet (Shri Durga Pustakbhandar, 1980s, both per the archive.org uploader, unverified); and Sanskrit Wikisource revision 415580. Their differences are recorded as variants in durga-chalisa.notes.md. Digital text: Bharat Samhita (bharatsamhita.com): transcribed by Claude (AI) from Gita Press 1033, starting from Sanskrit Wikisource's transcription by its contributors; not yet reviewed by an editor (Public domain, unverified; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0).