Shani Mantra PDF

ॐ शं शनैश्चराय नमः ॥

Om sham shanaishcharaya namah

Om Sham — salutations to Shanaishchara (Lord Saturn). The simple one-syllable (Sham) seed-salutation to Shani, chanted daily for his grace.

ॐ प्रां प्रीं प्रौं सः शनैश्चराय नमः ॥

Om pram prim praum sah shanaishcharaya namah

Om Praam Preem Praum Sah — salutations to Shanaishchara. This is the Shani Beej (seed) Mantra, traditionally japa-chanted 23,000 times as a remedy for an afflicted Saturn.

ॐ काकध्वजाय विद्महे खड्गहस्ताय धीमहि । तन्नो मन्दः प्रचोदयात् ॥

Om kakadhvajaya vidmahe khadgahastaya dhimahi Tanno mandah prachodayat

Om, may we know the crow-bannered one (Shani); may we meditate on him who bears the sword. May that Manda (Saturn) inspire and impel us. (The Shani Gayatri Mantra.)

नीलाञ्जनसमाभासं रविपुत्रं यमाग्रजम् । छायामार्तण्डसम्भूतं तं नमामि शनैश्चरम् ॥

Nilanjanasamabhasam raviputram yamagrajam Chhayamartandasambhutam tam namami shanaishcharam

Resembling the lustre of blue collyrium (kajal), the son of the Sun (Ravi) and the elder brother of Yama, born of Chhaya and Martanda (the Sun) — to that Shanaishchara I bow. (The famous Shani dhyana verse.)

कोणस्थः पिङ्गलो बभ्रुः कृष्णो रौद्रोऽन्तको यमः । सौरिः शनैश्चरो मन्दः पिप्पलादेन संस्तुतः ॥

Konasthah pingalo babhruh krishno raudrontako yamah Saurih shanaishcharo mandah pippaladena samstutah

Konastha (dweller in the corner), Pingala (the tawny), Babhru (the brown), Krishna (the dark), Raudra (the fierce), Antaka (the ender), Yama, Sauri (son of the Sun), Shanaishchara (the slow-mover) and Manda (the slow) — thus is he praised by the sage Pippalada. (The ten names of Shani.)

एतानि दश नामानि प्रातरुत्थाय यः पठेत् । शनैश्चरकृता पीडा न कदाचिद्भविष्यति ॥

Etani dasha namani pratarutthaya yah pathet Shanaishcharakrita pida na kadachidbhavishyati

Whoever rises at dawn and recites these ten names of Shani — the affliction wrought by Shanaishchara shall never befall him.