**Vande Mataram** is the national slogan and national marching song of India. It is not to be confused with the national anthem of India. The lyrics were written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, in a mix of Sanskrit and Bengali. The song was written in 1876, but published in 1882. The title means "Long live the Mother[land]". The first version of the Flag of India had "वन्दे मातरम्" (Vande Mataram) written on it.

Controversy
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Jana Gana Mana was chosen over *Vande Mataram* as the National Anthem of independent India in January 24, 1950, although before this date, *Vande Mataram* was treated as such. Vande Mataram was rejected because it offended Muslims by calling India "Mother Durga" (a Hindu goddess), equating the nation with Hinduism, and by its origin as part of *Anandamatha*, a book they felt had an anti-Muslim message.

Lyrics
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### English

#### Full version

सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम्  

सस्य श्यामलां मातरंम्.  

शुभ्र ज्योत्सनाम् पुलिकत यामिनीम्  

फुल्ल कुसुमित द्रुमदलशोभिनीम्,  

सुहासिनीं सुमधुर भाषिणीम्.  

सुखदां वरदां मातरम् ॥  

  

सप्त कोटि कण्ठ कलकल निनाद कराले  

द्विसप्त कोटि भुजैर्ध्रत खरकरवाले  

के बोले मा तुमी अबले  

बहुबल धारिणीम् नमामि तारिणीम्  

रिपुदलवारिणीम् मातरम् ॥  

  

तुमि विद्या तुमि धर्म, तुमि ह्रदि तुमि मर्म  

त्वं हि प्राणाः शरीरे  

बाहुते तुमि मा शक्ति,  

हृदये तुमि मा भक्ति,  

तोमारै प्रतिमा गडि मन्दिरे-मन्दिरे ॥  

  

त्वं हि दुर्गा दशप्रहरणधारिणी  

कमला कमलदल विहारिणी  

वाणी विद्यादायिनी, नमामि त्वाम्  

नमामि कमलां अमलां अतुलाम्  

सुजलां सुफलां मातरम् ॥  

  

श्यामलां सरलां सुस्मितां भूषिताम्  

धरणीं भरणीं मातरम् ॥

##### Translation

Mother, I salute thee!  
 
Rich with thy hurrying streams,  

bright with orchard gleams,  
 
Cool with thy winds of delight,  
 
Green fields waving Mother of might,  
 
Mother free.

Glory of moonlight dreams,  
 
Over thy branches and lordly streams,  
 
Clad in thy blossoming trees,  
 
Mother, giver of ease  
 
Laughing low and sweet!  
 
Mother I kiss thy feet,  
 
Speaker sweet and low!  
 
Mother, to thee I bow.  

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands  
 
When swords flash out in seventy million hands  
 
And seventy million voices roar  
 
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?  
 
With many strengths who art mighty and stored,  
 
To thee I call Mother and Lord!  
 
Thou who saves, arise and save!  
 
To her I cry who ever her foe drove  
 
Back from plain and sea  
 
And shook herself free.

Thou art wisdom, thou art law,  
 
Thou art heart, our soul, our breath  
 
Though art love divine, the awe  
 
In our hearts that conquers death.  
 
Thine the strength that nerves the arm,  
 
Thine the beauty, thine the charm.  
 
Every image made divine  
 
In our temples is but thine.

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,  
 
With her hands that strike and her  
 
swords of sheen,  
 
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,  
 
And the Muse a hundred-tone,  
 
Pure and perfect without peer,  
 
Mother lend thine ear,   
 
Rich with thy hurrying streams,  
 
Bright with thy orchard gleems,  
 
Dark of hue O candid-fair

In thy soul, with jewelled hair   
 
And thy glorious smile divine,   
 
Loveliest of all earthly lands,   
 
Showering wealth from well-stored hands!   
 
Mother, mother mine!  
 
Mother sweet, I bow to thee,  
 
Mother great and free!

*translated by Sri Aurobindo*

#### Official version

वन्दे मातरम्
सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम्  

सस्य श्यामलां मातरम् |  

शुभ्र ज्योत्स्ना पुलकित यामिनीम्  

फुल्ल कुसुमित द्रुमदलशोभिनीम्,  

सुहासिनीं सुमधुर भाषिणीम्  

सुखदां वरदां मातरम् ||

##### Translation

Mother, I salute thee!  

Rich with thy hurrying streams,  

bright with orchard gleams,  

Cool with thy winds of delight,  

Green fields waving Mother of might,  

Mother thee

Bengali
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### Full version

  

সুজলাং সুফলাং মলয়জশীতলাম্  

শস্যশ্যামলাং মাতরম্॥  

শুভ্রজ্যোত্স্না পুলকিতযামিনীম্  

পুল্লকুসুমিত দ্রুমদলশোভিনীম্  

সুহাসিনীং সুমধুর ভাষিণীম্  

সুখদাং বরদাং মাতরম্॥

কোটি কোটি কণ্ঠ কলকলনিনাদ করালে  

কোটি কোটি ভুজৈর্ধৃতখরকরবালে  

কে বলে মা তুমি অবলে  

বহুবলধারিণীং নমামি তারিণীম্  

রিপুদলবারিণীং মাতরম্॥

বন্দে মাতরম্  

সুজলাং সুফলাং মলযজশীতলাম্  

শস্য শ্যামলাং মাতরম্তুমি বিদ্যা তুমি ধর্ম, তুমি হৃদি তুমি মর্ম  

ত্বং হি প্রাণ শরীরে  

বাহুতে তুমি মা শক্তি  

হৃদয়ে তুমি মা ভক্তি  

তোমারৈ প্রতিমা গড়ি মন্দিরে মন্দিরে॥

Www.nationalsong.inত্বং হি দুর্গা দশপ্রহরণধারিণী  

কমলা কমলদল বিহারিণী  

বাণী বিদ্যাদায়িনী ত্বাম্  

নমামি কমলাং অমলাং অতুলাম্  

সুজলাং সুফলাং মাতরম্॥

শ্যামলাং সরলাং সুস্মিতাং ভূষিতাম্  

ধরণীং ভরণীং মাতরম্॥

### Official version

Other websites
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* On compulsory singing, Aju John writes in Indlaw[*permanent dead link*]
* Vande Mataram voted second in The World's Top Ten - BBC
* Vande Mataram against Sikh tenets
* Boycott threat over Indian song - BBC
* 1937 Congress Resolution on validity of Muslim objection to this song
* "Vande Mataram and Muslims" - Islamic Voice Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
* Listen Vande Mataram Online Archived 2008-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
* Listen Vande Mataram in Dr.SPB's voice Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine