खाटू श्याम मंत्र – पूरा पाठ, अर्थ और कब पढ़ें

पाठ

ॐ श्री श्याम देवाय नमः

oṃ śrī śyāma devāya namaḥ

Salutation to the divine Shyam. The standard Sanskrit name-mantra of the deity.

ॐ श्री खाटूश्यामाय नमः

oṃ śrī khāṭūśyāmāya namaḥ

Salutation to Shri Khatushyam. The place-specific form naming the Khatu shrine.

ॐ बर्बरीकाय नमः

oṃ barbarīkāya namaḥ

Salutation to Barbarika. Uses the deity's original name before Krishna conferred his own.

ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीकृष्णाय

oṃ namo bhagavate śrīkṛṣṇāya

Salutation to the Lord Shri Krishna. Used because Khatushyam is worshipped as bearing Krishna's own name.

हारे का सहारा, बाबा श्याम हमारा

hāre kā sahārā, bābā śyāma hamārā

JAIKARA (not a Sanskrit mantra): 'Support of the defeated — Baba Shyam is ours.' The single most characteristic slogan of the cult, referring to Barbarika's boon to side with the losing party. CAUTION: this phrase is also the title and hook of modern copyrighted bhajans; the bare jaikara is open communal usage, but recorded songs built on it are not.

जय श्री श्याम

jaya śrī śyāma

JAIKARA: 'Victory to Shri Shyam.' The universal greeting and call-and-response of Khatushyam devotees.

खाटू वाले श्याम बाबा की जय

khāṭū vāle śyāma bābā kī jaya

JAIKARA: 'Victory to Shyam Baba of Khatu.' Called out in procession and at darshan.

श्याम श्याम श्याम श्याम

śyāma śyāma śyāma śyāma

The simple name-repetition (nama-japa) used as the basic chant on pilgrimage, especially on the Khatu padyatra.

कब और कैसे पढ़ा जाता है

The eleventh lunar day (Ekadashi), and above all Phalguna Shukla Ekadashi to Dwadashi, which is the Phalgun Mela — the great annual festival at Khatu, drawing millions on the padyatra from Ringas. Shyam Baba's weekly day is observed as Ekadashi rather than a fixed weekday. Also Krishna Janmashtami. Jaikaras are called continuously on the padyatra; the name-mantras are used in japa of 108.

पाठ के बारे में

रचयिता	The Sanskrit name-mantras are conventional formulae with no author. The Hindi jaikaras are anonymous folk/communal usage. The popular bhajans associated with the cult are modern and individually authored.
काल	The Khatushyam cult in its present mass form is substantially modern: the Khatu temple's present structure dates to 1720 CE (rebuilt under Rajasthani patronage), and the large-scale pilgrimage and its repertoire of chants are largely a 20th-century development, with explosive growth from the 1980s onward. The underlying Barbarika narrative is older, drawn from the Mahabharata's Skanda Purana-adjacent and regional retellings.
भाषा	Sanskrit for the name-mantras; Hindi/Marwari for the popular jaikaras and chants

पाठभेद

अलग-अलग संस्करणों में कुछ पंक्तियाँ भिन्न हैं। हम दोनों पाठ स्रोत सहित दे रहे हैं और चुपचाप एक नहीं चुनते।

item 1	ॐ श्री श्याम देवाय नमः — common form ॐ श्री श्यामाय नमः — also common

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