ஆதி³த்ய ஹ்ருத³யம் is the celebrated hymn to the Sun taught by sage Agastya to Lord Rama in the Yuddha Kanda of Valmiki Ramayana. It appears at a decisive moment: Rama is weary on the battlefield, Ravana stands before him, and the gods have gathered to witness the struggle.
The hymn is about Surya as visible light, cosmic order, life-giving energy, and the inner witness. It identifies the Sun with many deities - Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Skanda, Prajapati, Indra, Yama, Soma, Varuna, the Vasus, Maruts, and others - showing that the solar principle gathers many divine functions into one radiant focus.
த்⁴யானம்
நமஸ்ஸவித்ரே ஜக³தே³க சக்ஷுஸே
ஜக³த்ப்ரஸூதி ஸ்தி²தி நாஶஹேதவே
த்ரயீமயாய த்ரிகு³ணாத்ம தா⁴ரிணே
விரிஞ்சி நாராயண ஶங்கராத்மனே
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
The dhyana salutes Savitri, the one eye of the universe and the cause of creation, preservation, and dissolution, as the essence of the three Vedas and the forms of Brahma, Narayana, and Shankara.
ததோ யுத்³த⁴ பரிஶ்ராந்தம் ஸமரே சிந்தயாஸ்தி²தம் ।
ராவணம் சாக்³ரதோ த்³ருஷ்ட்வா யுத்³தா⁴ய ஸமுபஸ்தி²தம் ॥ 1 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
After getting exhausted in the battle and on seeing Ravana, who was duly prepared and reached the battle ground, Rama stood in the war with a deep thought.
தை³வதைஶ்ச ஸமாக³ம்ய த்³ரஷ்டுமப்⁴யாக³தோ ரணம் ।
உபாக³ம்யாப்³ரவீத்³ராமம் அக³ஸ்த்யோ ப⁴க³வான் ருஷி: ॥ 2 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
(Seeing this) Bhagavan Sage Agastya, who came along with the Gods to see the battle, approached Rama and spoke to him.
ராம ராம மஹாபா³ஹோ ஶ்ருணு கு³ஹ்யம் ஸனாதனம் ।
யேன ஸர்வானரீன் வத்ஸ ஸமரே விஜயிஷ்யஸி ॥ 3 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Rama, O Rama, the elegant one with great shoulders, listen to this eternal secret, by which, you, my child, can be victorious on all your enemies in the war.
ஆதி³த்யஹ்ருத³யம் புண்யம் ஸர்வஶத்ரு-வினாஶனம் ।
ஜயாவஹம் ஜபேன்னித்யம் அக்ஷய்யம் பரமம் ஶிவம் ॥ 4 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
This holy Aditya hrudayam can destroy all the enemies. By chanting this stotram daily can bring victory to you all the time without much effort and gives you unending felicity.
ஸர்வமங்கள³-மாங்கள³்யம் ஸர்வபாப-ப்ரணாஶனம் ।
சிந்தாஶோக-ப்ரஶமனம் ஆயுர்வர்த⁴னமுத்தமம் ॥ 5 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
This holy hymn is always auspicious, brings prosperity, destroys all the sins, which can alleviate worry and sorrows, bestows wellbeing and longevity, a superior one (among the stotras).
ரஶ்மிமந்தம் ஸமுத்³யந்தம் தே³வாஸுர நமஸ்க்ருதம் ।
பூஜயஸ்வ விவஸ்வந்தம் பா⁴ஸ்கரம் பு⁴வனேஶ்வரம் ॥ 6 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
This hymn is on the one, who raises up with glorious rays, who is bowed both by the Gods and demons. You worship him, the one who can cover the tejas of other, The Lord Bhaskara, The giver of the light to the Lokas.
ஸர்வதே³வாத்மகோ ஹ்யேஷ தேஜஸ்வீ ரஶ்மிபா⁴வன: ।
ஏஷ தே³வாஸுர-க³ணான் லோகான் பாதி க³ப⁴ஸ்திபி⁴: ॥ 7 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
The one who is the embodied form of all the Devas, the self-luminous, who energizes all the beings with his rays, who can protects the Deva and Asura ganas of all the Lokas with his rays.
ஏஷ ப்³ரஹ்மா ச விஷ்ணுஶ்ச ஶிவ: ஸ்கந்த:³ ப்ரஜாபதி: ।
மஹேந்த்³ரோ த⁴னத:³ காலோ யம: ஸோமோ ஹ்யபாம் பதி: ॥ 8 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
The one who himself is the essence of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Skanda(Kumara- son of God Shiva), Prajapathi (Lord of born beings), Mahendra (King of the Devas), Kubera (Dhanadaha, In charge of the wealth), Kala (eternal time), Yama (the Lord of death), Chandra (Soma, the moon God), The in charge of the waters (Varuna or Hyapampathi).
பிதரோ வஸவ: ஸாத்⁴யா ஹ்யஶ்வினௌ மருதோ மனு: ।
வாயுர்வஹ்னி: ப்ரஜாப்ராண: ருதுகர்தா ப்ரபா⁴கர: ॥ 9 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
The one who is indeed the Pitaro (Ancestral manes), eight Vasava's (givers of treasures), Sandhyas (semidivine yoginis), Ashwini devas (the physicians of celestials), Marutas (deities of storm), Manu (progenitor of human race), Vayu (God of wind), Agni (God of fire), Prajaprana (maker of the vital air of sustenance in living beings), Ruthukartha (maker of seasons), Prabhakara (the giver of the light).
ஆதி³த்ய: ஸவிதா ஸூர்ய: க²க:³ பூஷா க³ப⁴ஸ்திமான் ।
ஸுவர்ணஸத்³ருஶோ பா⁴னு: ஹிரண்யரேதா தி³வாகர: ॥ 1௦ ॥ [ஸ்வரணரேதா தி³வாகர:]
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
He is Aditya, son of Aditi; Savita, the impeller; Surya, the radiant one; Khaga, the mover through the sky; Pusha, the nourisher; and Gabhastiman, rich in rays. He shines with a golden likeness as Bhanu, bears golden creative energy as HiraNyarEta, and makes the day as Divakara; the bracketed variant reading is preserved with the same sense of radiant generative power.
ஹரித³ஶ்வ: ஸஹஸ்ரார்சி: ஸப்தஸப்தி-ர்மரீசிமான் ।
திமிரோன்மத²ன: ஶம்பு⁴: த்வஷ்டா மார்தாண்ட³கோம்ஶுமான் ॥ 11 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
With the horses that are in greenish colour, the one radiating with thousand rays, who has seven horses and with great rays, the remover of darkness, bestower of auspiciousness, mitigator of sufferings, who is Marthanda, the reinfuser of creation, the omnipresent as his rays that penetrate everywhere.
ஹிரண்யக³ர்ப:⁴ ஶிஶிர: தபனோ பா⁴ஸ்கரோ ரவி: ।
அக்³னிக³ர்போ⁴தி³தே: புத்ர: ஶங்க:² ஶிஶிரனாஶன: ॥ 12 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
The primordial one who became the Trinity, the remover of tapa or affliction, who brings warmth, the maker of the day and the one praised by all. O the one who have fire in his womb, the son of Aditi, the calming one and the remover of snow.
வ்யோமனாத-²ஸ்தமோபே⁴தீ³ ருக்³யஜு:ஸாம-பாரக:³ ।
க⁴னாவ்ருஷ்டிரபாம் மித்ர: விந்த்⁴யவீதீ² ப்லவங்க³ம: ॥ 13 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
O The Lord of aether, dispeller of Rahu or darkness, the one with par excellence in Vedas, by whom the great rains dispense, a friend to the waters (as the rays bring life and purifies waters), The one who moves fast in the sky.
ஆதபீ மண்ட³லீ ம்ருத்யு: பிங்கள³: ஸர்வதாபன: ।
கவிர்விஶ்வோ மஹாதேஜா ரக்த: ஸர்வப⁴வோத்³ப⁴வ: ॥ 14 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Who is with his forms that are intensely absorbed, inflictor of death to the wicked, who is red in colour, desired by all the beings, the one who is a great scholar, runs the worlds with great radiance, who affectionate all and acts as the starting place to the next generation or action.
நக்ஷத்ர க்³ரஹ தாராணாம் அதி⁴போ விஶ்வபா⁴வன: ।
தேஜஸாமபி தேஜஸ்வீ த்³வாத³ஶாத்ம-ன்னமோஸ்து தே ॥ 15 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
He is the Lord of Stars, planets and constellations, who simulates everything in universe, He who is resplendently illuminous with the illuminati of all, the one with twelve forms, I bow to you.
நம: பூர்வாய கி³ரயே பஶ்சிமாயாத்³ரயே நம: ।
ஜ்யோதிர்க³ணானாம் பதயே தி³னாதி⁴பதயே நம: ॥ 16 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Salutations to the deity of the eastern mountain (indicating the Sun rising), and of the western mountain (where the Sun sets). O the Lord of stellar bodies, Lord of the day, I bow to you.
ஜயாய ஜயப⁴த்³ராய ஹர்யஶ்வாய நமோ நம: ।
நமோ நம: ஸஹஸ்ராம்ஶோ ஆதி³த்யாய நமோ நம: ॥ 17 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
O the one who gives victory, the bestower of victory along with protection, the one with green coloured horses, my salutations to you. My salutations to the one with thousand rays, O God Adithya I bow to you.
நம உக்³ராய வீராய ஸாரங்கா³ய நமோ நம: ।
நம: பத்³மப்ரபோ³தா⁴ய மார்தாண்டா³ய நமோ நம: ॥ 18 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Salutations to you, who is terrible to wicked, who ably powers in achieving things, the one who travels fast, I bow to you. My salutations to the one who makes the lotuses blossom, who is the Mardanda surya, I bow to you.
ப்³ரஹ்மேஶானாச்யுதேஶாய ஸூர்யாயாதி³த்ய-வர்சஸே ।
பா⁴ஸ்வதே ஸர்வப⁴க்ஷாய ரௌத்³ராய வபுஷே நம: ॥ 19 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
The one with the form of Brahma , Eeshana (Shiva) and Atchyutha (Vishnu), O the Surya, the one radiating in the Aditya rupa. O the illuminating one, devourer of all, the one with the body like that of Rudra, I bow to you.
தமோக்⁴னாய ஹிமக்⁴னாய ஶத்ருக்⁴னாயா மிதாத்மனே ।
க்ருதக்⁴னக்⁴னாய தே³வாய ஜ்யோதிஷாம் பதயே நம: ॥ 2௦ ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
He who dispels the darkness, destroyer of snow, remover of the enemies, whose extent is immeasurable. The Lord of all, who is the annihilator of the ungreatful ones, the in charge of the stellar bodies, I bow to you.
தப்த சாமீகராபா⁴ய வஹ்னயே விஶ்வகர்மணே ।
நமஸ்தமோபி⁴ நிக்⁴னாய ரவயே லோகஸாக்ஷிணே ॥ 21 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
The one who has radiance like that of a melted gold, the transcendental fire of divine knowledge, the maker of the universe. I prostrate to you, the remover of darkness, the illuminating one, the witness of all the happenings in the lokas.
நாஶயத்யேஷ வை பூ⁴தம் ததே³வ ஸ்ருஜதி ப்ரபு⁴: ।
பாயத்யேஷ தபத்யேஷ வர்ஷத்யேஷ க³ப⁴ஸ்திபி⁴: ॥ 22 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
He is the one who destroys the universe at the end and he is the one who reinitiates the creation of the same. The one who with his rays dry's the water bodies, consumes the water, and brings them back as rains.
ஏஷ ஸுப்தேஷு ஜாக³ர்தி பூ⁴தேஷு பரினிஷ்டி²த: ।
ஏஷ ஏவாக்³னிஹோத்ரம் ச ப²லம் சைவாக்³னி ஹோத்ரிணாம் ॥ 23 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
O the one who lives in all the beings keeping them awake even when they are asleep, who is Agnihotram himself and also the fruit thereof achieved by the worshippers of the Agnihotram.
வேதா³ஶ்ச க்ரதவஶ்சைவ க்ரதூனாம் ப²லமேவ ச ।
யானி க்ருத்யானி லோகேஷு ஸர்வ ஏஷ ரவி: ப்ரபு⁴: ॥ 24 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
He is indeed the Lord in all actions, who is the essence underlying a krathu and the fruit achieved thereof, O the one who is the supreme, who is indeed a fulfiller of all the works in all the worlds, the supreme Lord Ravi (I bow to you).
ப²லஶ்ருதி:
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Benefits of chanting this stotram:
ஏன மாபத்ஸு க்ருச்ச்²ரேஷு காந்தாரேஷு ப⁴யேஷு ச ।
கீர்தயன் புருஷ: கஶ்சின்னாவஶீத³தி ராக⁴வ ॥ 25 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
O Rama the one who recites this hymn will be protected during their difficult situations and times, at the forts, and during the times of fear - such ones who praise the glory of the Sun God will never be defeated.
பூஜயஸ்வைன மேகாக்³ர: தே³வதே³வம் ஜக³த்பதிம் ।
ஏதத் த்ரிகு³ணிதம் ஜப்த்வா யுத்³தே⁴ஷு விஜயிஷ்யஸி ॥ 26 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Devoting with utmost concentration on almighty of the universe, the Lord of all the Lords. And reciting this divine hymn three times a day one will come out victorious in the battle.
அஸ்மின் க்ஷணே மஹாபா³ஹோ ராவணம் த்வம் வதி⁴ஷ்யஸி ।
ஏவமுக்த்வா ததா³க³ஸ்த்யோ ஜகா³ம ச யதா²க³தம் ॥ 27 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Within this second, O' Rama, Mahabaahu (one with great shoulders) you will destroy Ravana. Thus spoke sage Agastya and then leaves his way.
ஏதச்ச்²ருத்வா மஹாதேஜா: நஷ்டஶோகோப⁴வத்ததா³ ।
தா⁴ரயாமாஸ ஸுப்ரீத: ராக⁴வ: ப்ரயதாத்மவான் ॥ 28 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Listening to this hymn, Lord Rama with great radiance comes out of the deep sorrow. And then he invokes this mantra with great courage.
ஆதி³த்யம் ப்ரேக்ஷ்ய ஜப்த்வா து பரம் ஹர்ஷமவாப்தவான் ।
த்ரிராசம்ய ஶுசிர்பூ⁴த்வா த⁴னுராதா³ய வீர்யவான் ॥ 29 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Lord Rama, on seeing Aditya Bhagavan and obtaining his blessing feels very happy. Later on doing the Achamanam three times thus becomes pure and then picks his mighty bow.
ராவணம் ப்ரேக்ஷ்ய ஹ்ருஷ்டாத்மா யுத்³தா⁴ய ஸமுபாக³மத் ।
ஸர்வயத்னேன மஹதா வதே⁴ தஸ்ய த்⁴ருதோப⁴வத் ॥ 3௦ ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
On seeing Ravana coming to fight, Rama then feels calm and smiles peacefully. With all his efforts Rama finally determines to kill him (Ravana).
அத⁴ ரவிரவத³ன்னிரீக்ஷ்ய ராமம் முதி³தமனா: பரமம் ப்ரஹ்ருஷ்யமாண: ।
நிஶிசரபதி ஸங்க்ஷயம் விதி³த்வா ஸுரக³ண மத்⁴யக³தோ வசஸ்த்வரேதி ॥ 31 ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
After that (on seeing the determination of Rama), Lord Ravi (Surya) with a delighted heart became highly astonished. Further on understanding that the Ravanas future is coming to an end, Lord Surya stood in the middle of the Deva ganas and insisted Rama to be quick.
இத்யார்ஷே ஶ்ரீமத்³ராமாயணே வால்மிகீயே ஆதி³காவ்யே யுத்³த⁴காண்டே³ பஞ்சாதி⁴க ஶததம: ஸர்க:³ ॥
Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Thus ends the Aditya hrudayam, which is part of the Yuddha Kanda from the Valmiki Ramayanam.
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