July 7, 2023: Added ability to increase or decrease kirtan text size. Click on the upper right menu to adjust font size.
April 20, 2023: Added link to share the page or kirtan. Tidied up the options icons into a corner menu.
April 18, 2023:
Links to Akshar Amrutam App are being added. If you have the app installed on your phone, you will be able to listen to the kirtan from the app. The links to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store are found here: Akshar Amrutam App.
March 28, 2023: Arti updated with new ashtaks in Sanskrit/Hindi. The arti with the Gujarati ashtaks will still be available here: Arti with Gujarati Ashtaks.
July 4, 2021: New ‘Utsavs’ selection option added for the ability to find kirtans categorized by the Utsav.
April 3, 2021: New tooltips have been added for difficult or archaic Gujarati words and English translations of certain Gujarati words.
January 15, 2021: Hindi kirtans are now available in the Devanagari lipi. They can be viewed on their own dedicated page here: Hindi Kirtan Muktavali.
September 9, 2020: This page will now remember your language preference for the kirtan selection and the kirtan text. This will avoid the unnecessary scrolling for pages like the Sahajanand Namavali.
July 11, 2020: Added kirtan view history and optimized scripts so users will incur less data downloads from server and faster loading of kirtan menus.
June 20, 2020: Added ability to search the title of the kirtan or the lyrics. Since most people search for the title, this will be useful in limiting the search results and will be selected by default. Moreover, searching the lyrics will also search the title, since the first line of the kirtan is usually its title.
December 7, 2019: Now, if you view a kirtan that has some history, prasang, nirupan, or the English translation, you will see links below the kirtan text to navigate there quickly. Also, if a kirtan is part of multiple pads, you will be able to select them easily from the link.
December 7, 2019: Multi-pad kirtans are now organized by < 4 pads, 4 pads, or > 4 pads to make the list shorter.
November 21, 2019: Added ability to select multi-pad kirtans from the selection menu. (Today is the 200th anniversary of the first Vachanamrut based on the Gregorian calendar.)