Mahaveer swami janma vanchan lyrics

“Mahaveer Janma Vanchan” literally means the sacred reading of Bhagwan Mahavir’s birth episode from the Kalpasutra (Shwetambar tradition). In temples, the exact Sanskrit/Prakrit text and its Gujarati/Hindi explanations are read from the authorized Kalpasutra pothi, which can vary slightly by gacch and sangh. Therefore, there is no single “song lyric” for Janma Vanchan itself.

However, during or around the Janma Vanchan program, devotees often sing a popular stavan describing Mata Trishalā lovingly cradling the newborn Mahavir. Its lyrics (Gujarati) are below.

Mahavir Swami Halardu (devotional stavan often sung during Janma Vanchan)

• Maataa Trishalaa jhulaave putra paarane…
• Gaave haalo haalo haalaravaanaa geeta,
• Sonā-rupāne valī ratane jadiyu pāranū…
• Reshama doree ghugharee vāge chhuma chhuma rīta…
• Haalo haalo haalo haalo mhārā nandane re…..1

• Jinajī Pārshva prabhuthī varasha adheese antare,
• Honse chovīsamo tīrthankara jina parimāna,
• Keshī Swāmī mukhathee evī vāṇī sānbhalī,
• Sāchī sāchī huī te mhāre amruta vāṇa…..
• Haalo haalo haalo haalo mhārā nandane re…..2

• Chaude svapne hove chakrī ke jinarāja,
• Vityā bāre chakrī naheī have chakrīrāja,
• Jinajī Pārshva prabhunā Shrī Keshī ganadhāra,
• Tehane vachane jānyā chovīsama jinarāja,
• Haalo haalo haalo haalo mhārā nandane re…..3

• Mhārī kukhe āvyā traṇa bhuvana shiratāja,
• Mhārī kukhe āvyā tāraṇa tarana jahāja,
• Mhārī kukhe āvyā saṅgha tīrathanī lāja,
• Hu to puṇya panotee indrānī thaī āja,
• Haalo haalo haalo haalo mhārā nandane re…..4

• Mujane dohalo upanyō besu gaja anbāḍiye,
• Sinhāsana para besu chāmara chhatra dharāya,
• Te sahoō lakṣaṇa mujane nandana thārā tejana,
• Te dina sanbhārune ānanda anga na māya,
• Haalo haalo haalo haalo mhārā nandane re…..5

• Karatala pagatala lakṣaṇa eka hajāra ne āṭha chhe,
• Tehathī nishchaya jānyā jinavara Shrī jagadīsha,
• Nandana jamanī jāṅghe lāñchhana siṃha birājato,
• Meṃ to pahele svapne ditho visavāveesa,
• Haalo haalo haalo haalo mhārā nandane re…..6

• (…stavan continues up to stanza 18 as traditionally sung…)

Note:

• Shwetambar: Janma Vanchan is the formal scripture-recitation from the Kalpasutra during Paryushan; the mother’s auspicious dreams are counted as fourteen.
• Digambar: The public “Janma Vanchan” program is not a central practice; the dreams are traditionally counted as sixteen. Both traditions equally revere Bhagwan Mahavir’s Janma Kalyanak.

For a simple explanation of what Janma Vanchan is and when it is observed, see:

• Which day of Paryushan is Janma Vanchan?
• Why we celebrate Mahaveer Janma Vanchan.

Lyrics reference for the above stavan (Mahavir Swami Halardu):