Mirabai
"Payoji maine Ram ratan dhan payo" ("I have found the jewel of Ram's name")
Traditional attribution · Essential works
"Payoji maine Ram ratan dhan payo" ("I have found the jewel of Ram's name")
पायो जी मैंने राम रतन धन पायो
A song of gratitude for the divine name, presented as a treasure that is never spent, that thieves cannot steal and that grows every day. It is one of the most popular bhajans of modern India, spread by Lata Mangeshkar's recording and by singing in temples and schools.
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Authorship note
It belongs to the corpus of padas attributed to Mirabai, transmitted mainly through oral and musical channels. According to Hawley, only two poems bearing her signature appear in manuscripts earlier than the eighteenth century; the authorship of any particular pada cannot be proven.
Editions and translations
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हिन्दी
Mirabai
Mīrāṃbāī kī padāvalī
The Conscious LibraryMīrāṃbāī kī padāvalī
Hindī Sāhitya Sammelan, 1932
Corpus de referencia; las versiones cantadas presentan variantes.
Other works by Mirabai
- Padavali (Mirabai's songs)
- "Mere to Giridhar Gopal" ("Mine is Giridhar Gopal")
- Narsi ji ro Mahero
- Commentary on the Gita Govinda
- Rag Govind
- Padas in raga Sorath
- Three Bhakti Voices (John Stratton Hawley) · 2005
- Upholding the Common Life (Parita Mukta) · 1994
- Mirabai: The Making of a Saint (Nancy M. Martin) · 2023
- Mira Bai: Her Life and Times (Hermann Goetz) · 1966
Sources
- Caturvedī, Paraśurām (ed.). Mīrāṃbāī kī padāvalī. Prayāg: Hindī Sāhitya Sammelan, 1932 (ediciones posteriores de 1947 y 1966).
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