Vatapi Ganapatim

Another prayer in Sanskrit to Ganesa, composed by Muttuswami Dikshitar, set in Hamsadhwani raga.

vaataapi gaNapatim bajEham
vaaraNaasyam varapradam shree

bootaadi sam sEvita caraNam
boota bowdika prapanca baraNam
veetaraagiNam vinata yOginam
vishva kaaraNam vigna vaaraNam

puraa kumba sambhava munivara prapoojitam
trikONa madya gatam
muraari pramukaat yupaasitam
moolaadhaara kshEtraa stitam
paraadi sattvaari vaakaatmagam

praNava svaroopa vakratunDam
nirandaram niDala candra kaNDam
nija vaamakara vidrutEkshutanDam
karaambuja paaSa beejaapooram
kaloosha vidhooram bootaahaaram
haraadi guruguha tOshita bimbam
hamsadhwani booshita hErambam

Here's MS Subbulakshmi singing Vatapi Ganapatim.

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Here's the acclaimed poem "I Would Know You Anywhere" by Revathy Gopal.

I would know you anywhere
even as a line drawing,
with just a suggestion
of broken tusk.

A mischievous arc
of belly and trunk,
minimalist.

I know you in stone
and wood. Terracotta
is fine; once in someone’s
living room, I saw you
made in jade
with the light trapped inside.

In shops sometimes,
they seal you
in plastic.

Even on a crowded, noisy street
you make
an area of stillness
around you.
I stand in a trance
watching the dance.

One leg hefted high,
or in the indolence
after sleep,
balancing your elephantine
head in your hand.

Renegade, clown, purveyor of dreams,
dispeller of darkness, arbiter of destinies,
you stand just beyond
my angle of vision,
untamed, unclaimed.