{"id":340,"date":"2010-01-27T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T01:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2010-01-27T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T01:29:26","slug":"national-symbols-of-india-national-song-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"National Symbols of India-National Song of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>National Song<\/h1>\n<p>The song <strong>Vande Mataram<\/strong>, composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji, was a source of inspiration to the people in their struggle for freedom. It has an equal status with <strong>Jana-gana-mana<\/strong>. The first political occasion when it was sung was the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress. The following is the text of its first stanza:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong> Vande Mataram!<br \/>\nSujalam, suphalam, malayaja shitalam,<br \/>\nShasyashyamalam, Mataram!<br \/>\nVande Mataram!<br \/>\nShubhrajyotsna pulakitayaminim,<br \/>\nPhullakusumita drumadala shobhinim,<br \/>\nSuhasinim sumadhura bhashinim,<br \/>\nSukhadam varadam, Mataram!<br \/>\nVande Mataram, Vande Mataram!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/india.gov.in\/images\/mplayergif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"14\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/india.gov.in\/images\/banner\/linktousbanner\/media\/vande.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download National Song (327 KB, 0:20 Sec.)<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The English translation of the stanza rendered by Sri Aurobindo in prose 1 is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong> I bow to thee, Mother,<br \/>\nrichly-watered, richly-fruited,<br \/>\ncool with the winds of the south,<br \/>\ndark with the crops of the harvests,<br \/>\nThe Mother!<br \/>\nHer nights rejoicing in the glory of the moonlight,<br \/>\nher lands clothed beautifully with her trees in flowering bloom,<br \/>\nsweet of laughter, sweet of speech,<br \/>\nThe Mother, giver of boons, giver of bliss.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Source: <\/span><strong>India 2008<\/strong> &#8211; A Reference Annual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Song The song Vande Mataram, composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji, was a source of inspiration to the people in their struggle for freedom. It has an equal status &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,9672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-facts","category-national-symbols-of-india","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}