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A Hindi arati whose refrain hails Rama twice by relation rather than by name — victory to the lord of Janaki, victory to the lord of the Raghus — and whose first line establishes the posture the whole song keeps: with both hands folded I make my request, Lord, hear what I have to say. What follows is asked rather than described. Eighteen short lines with the refrain returning after each pair, in the plainest devotional Hindi, and the striking thing about it is how little it praises: almost the whole of the song is the petition, and the god is identified throughout by whose husband and whose lord he is.