BANDE UTKALA JANANI

BANDE UTKALA JANANI
CHARU HASMAYI CHARU BHASAMAYI
JANANI, JANANI, JANANI

PUTA-PAYODHI-BIDHYOTA-SHARIRA
TALATAMALA-SUSOBHITA-TIRA
SHUBHRA TATINIKULA-SHIKARA-SHAMIRA
JANANI, JANANI, JANANI

GHANA BANA BHUMI RAJITAANGE
NILA BHUDH ARAMALA SAJE TARANGE
KALAKALA MUKHRITA CHARU BIHANGE
JANANI, JANANI, JANANI

SUNDARASHALI-SUSOBHITA-KSHETRA
GNYANA BIGNYANA-PRADARSHITA-NETRA
JOGI RUSHIGANA UTAJA-PABITRA
JANANI, JANANI, JANANI

SUNDARA MANDIRA MANDITA-DESHA
CHARU KALABALI-SHOBHITA-BESHA
PUNYA TIRTHACHAYA-PURNA PRADESHA
JANANI, JANANI, JANANI

UTKALA SURABARA-DARPITA-GEHA
ARIKULA-SHONITA-CHARCHITA-DEHA
BISWA BHUMANDALA-KRUTABAR-SNEHA
JANANI, JANANI, JANANI

KABIKULAMOULI SUNANDANA-BANDYA
BHUBANA BIGHOSHITA-KIRTI ANINDYA
DHANYE, PUNYE, CHIRA SHARANYE
JANANI, JANANI, JANANI

Translated in English:

Glory to thee, Mother Utkal

I adore Thee, O’Mother Utkal
How loving are Thy smile and voice !
O’Mother, Mother, Mother !

Bath’d art Thou by the sacred Sea,
Thy shores adorned with trees tall and green,
Balmy breeze blowing by beauteous streams,
O’Mother, Mother, Mother !

Thy body bedeck’d with dense woodlands,
Arrayed with verdant hills plaited like waves,
Thy sky ringing with choirs of singing birds,
O’Mother, Mother, Mother !

How charming are Thy rich fields of corn !
Thou art Eye to Erudition enow,
Sacred Abode to saints and seers,
O’Mother, Mother, Mother !

Thy land bejewelled with splendid shrines,
Richly dress’d art Thou in varied arts,
Thy limbs studded with sacred sites,
O’Mother, Mother, Mother !

Thou Home to the valiant heroes of Utkal,
Thy frame crimsoned with enemies’ blood,
Prime Darling of the whole universe,
O’Mother, Mother, Mother !

Greeted by Thy great sons, the crowning bards,
Thy untarnished glory proclaimed all around,
Blessed art Thou, the Holy, the Unfalling Abode,
I adore Thee, O’Mother, Mother, Mother !