Selected reading version. Scope and sources
गाइए गनपति जगबंदन। संकरसुवन भवानीनंदन॥
gāie ganapati jagabaṃdana | saṃkarasuvana bhavānīnaṃdana ||
English meaning: Sing of Ganapati, whom the whole world reveres: son of Shankara, joy of Bhavani.
हिंदी अर्थ: जगत के वंदनीय गणपति का गुणगान कीजिए, जो शंकर के पुत्र और भवानी के नंदन हैं।
Roman Hindi meaning: Jagat ke vandaneeya Ganpati ka gungaan kijiye, jo Shankar ke putra aur Bhavani ke nandan hain.
सिद्धिसदन गजबदन बिनायक। कृपासिंधु सुंदर सब लायक॥
siddhisadana gajabadana bināyaka | kṛpāsiṃdhu suṃdara saba lāyaka ||
English meaning: Home of all success, elephant-faced Vinayaka, ocean of compassion, handsome and able in every way.
हिंदी अर्थ: वे सिद्धियों के धाम, हाथी के मुख वाले विनायक हैं; कृपा के सागर, सुंदर और सब प्रकार से समर्थ हैं।
Roman Hindi meaning: Ve siddhiyon ke dhaam, haathi ke mukh wale Vinayak hain; kripa ke saagar, sundar aur sab prakaar se samarth hain.
मोदकप्रिय मुद-मंगल-दाता। विद्याबारिधि बुद्धि-बिधाता॥
modakapriya muda-maṃgala-dātā | vidyābāridhi buddhi-bidhātā ||
English meaning: Fond of modakas, giver of joy and blessing, ocean of learning, the one who bestows understanding.
हिंदी अर्थ: उन्हें मोदक प्रिय हैं; वे आनंद और मंगल देने वाले, विद्या के सागर और बुद्धि के विधाता हैं।
Roman Hindi meaning: Unhen modak priya hain; ve anand aur mangal dene wale, vidya ke saagar aur buddhi ke vidhaata hain.
माँगत तुलसिदास कर जोरे। बसहिं रामसिय मानस मोरे॥
mām̐gata tulasidāsa kara jore | basahiṃ rāmasiya mānasa more ||
English meaning: With folded hands Tulsidas asks this: may Rama and Sita dwell in my heart.
हिंदी अर्थ: तुलसीदास हाथ जोड़कर यही माँगते हैं कि राम और सीता मेरे मन में बसें।
Roman Hindi meaning: Tulsidas haath jodkar yahi maangte hain ki mere man mein Ram aur Sita basen.
Gaiye Ganpati Jagvandan is the first pad of Goswami Tulsidas’s Vinaya Patrika: four couplets in Braj praising Ganesha, son of Shiva and Parvati, and ending with Tulsidas’s request that Rama and Sita live in his mind. This page gives the pad in the spelling of the 1923 Tulsi-Granthavali, where the first word is गाइए; a 1926 printing has the same words.
Vinaya Patrika opens, as many devotional works do, by honouring Ganesha. Pad 1, in raga Bilaval, names him as son of Shankara and Bhavani, home of success, elephant-faced, fond of modakas and lord of learning. The last couplet turns the praise into a request: what Tulsidas asks of Ganesha is that Rama and Sita dwell in his heart.
The text follows the 1923 Kashi Nagari Pracharini Sabha printing, which spells the first word गाइए and keeps Braj forms such as गनपति, जगबंदन, संकरसुवन and बिनायक. The 1926 Naval Kishore Press printing has the same words in modernised spelling (गाइये गणपति जगवन्दन, शंकरसुवन, विनायक), as do many later books and song sheets; the meaning is the same.