śrīrāmacaṃdrāṃcī āratī

A short Marathi arati of the full assembly rather than of Rama alone. A garland that adorns the three worlds hangs at his throat, and the lamps are turned for what the singer calls a figure of brahman, beautiful and cloud-dark. Then the court is set around him in two lines: Maruti standing directly in front with his hands folded, and Bharata and Shatrughna on either side waving the fly-whisks. The refrain that runs through it is the one Maharashtra sings more than any other — Shriram jaya Ram jaya jaya Ram — so that the arati carries the thirteen-syllable name inside itself as its own chorus.