Artist	Song
Lata Mangeshkar	Om Jai Jagdish Hare (Aarti)
from Ram Ratan Dhan Payo (2008)
Ravi Shankar	Shanti-Mantra
from Inside the Kremlin (1989)
Anup Jalota	Jai Jai Jai Hanuman Ki
from Jai Jai Hanuman (2006)
Suresh Wadkar	Mahamrityunjaya Mantra
from Mahamrityunjaya Shiva - Sacred Morning Mantras (2006)
Nirvanananda	Ganesha Sharanam
from Jyoti Gita (2002)
Jai Uttal	Shri Krishna Govinda
from Kirtan! the Art and Practice of Ecstatic Chant (2003)
Yogi Hari	Shiva Aarti
from Shiva Bhajans (2002)
Poonam Khanna & Rupinder Sridhar	Krishna Aarti
from Jape Ja Radhey-radhey (2002)
Jagjit Singh	Ambe Charan Kamal Hain Tere
from Ambe Charan Kamal Hain Tere (2004)
Bhai Charanjit Singh, Bhai Singara Singh & Bhai Raghbir Singh	Hey Gobind Hey Gopal
from Deho Daras (2007)
Kiran Nath	Tum Meri Rakho Laaj Hari
from Hari Om (2008)
Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna	Radhika Krishna
from Radhika Krishna (2004)
Deva Premal	Gayatri Mantra
from The Essence (1998)
Sadhana Sargam	Shri Rama Aarti
from Prarthana - Shri Rama (Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma) Vol. 2 (2006)
Raghunath Panigrahi	Dheera Sameere
from Dheera Sameere (2004)
Lata Mangeshkar	Payoji Maine Ram Ratan Dhan Payo
from Ram Ratan Dhan Payo (2008)
Sanjeev Abhyankar	Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh
from Ganesh (2005)
Lakshmi Shankar	Darashan Dena Pran Piyare
from Darashan Dena Pran Piyare (2004)

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It's Shiva, leading the cosmic dance. It's Ganesha, the elephant-headed god with a broken tusk, removing obstacles. It's blue-skinned Vishnu, the all-pervading essence. It's mother-goddess Shakti, the divine force. It's the oldest major religion in the world, with roots in the Iron Age, and more than a billion followers worldwide today. We start our excursion into Hindi devotional music with the German-born, classically trained Deva Premal, gliding through "the mother of the [i]vedas[/i]," polishing the "Gayatri Mantra" with a new-age gloss. The 12th-century Sanskrit poet Jayadeva composed "Dheera Sameere" as part of his lyrical epic [i]The Gita Govinda[/i]; in this almost raga-like setting, Raghunath Panigrahi lovingly ladles his vocals over a sitar, flute, and percussion as he recounts the tale of a tryst between the god Krishna and his [i]gopi[/i] lover, Radha. And anyone familiar with Bollywood music will immediately recognize the loping tabla beat of "Jai Jai Jai Hanuman Ki," a joy-filled [i]bhajan[/i] to the Hindu monkey god from the much beloved (and multi-platinum-selling) Anup Jalota. From Lata Mangeshkar to Jai Uttal, from the Yogi Hari to Nirvanananda, we've traveled the entire Indian subcontinent and beyond to bring you the songs that honor the thousands of gods — and delight the millions of followers — of the world's third-largest religion.

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