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Add to Home screen किंवा Install app दाबा.Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
Install किंवा Add दाबा.Tap Install or Add.
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Help
This site has the texts we recite at the Sankathara Chaturthi pooja: the Ganapati Atharvashirsha and the aartis, in Marathi with English transliteration (in an everyday or a scholarly spelling). It works without internet once opened.
Put it on your phone
Tap App (phone with an arrow) in the row of buttons on the home page, or Add to Home Screen under About in Settings. On Android and in Chrome or Edge on a computer this usually installs it in one tap; otherwise it shows the steps for your phone or browser (on a Mac in Safari: Share or File → Add to Dock).
iPhone (Safari or Chrome)
Open the site in Safari. If you opened it from WhatsApp, Mail or Messages, tap the compass or ⋯ icon to open it in Safari first; those built-in viewers don't have the option.
Tap the Share button (square with an arrow) at the bottom of Safari. On iOS 26, tap ⋯ first, then Share. In Chrome it is at the top right.
Swipe the list up (or tap View More) and tap Add to Home Screen. Not there? Tap Edit Actions… at the bottom of the list and turn it on.
Tap Add.
1. Tap ShareOn iOS 26: ⋯ first2. Add to Home Screen3. Tap Add
Android
Open the site in Chrome.
Tap the ⋮ menu at the top right.
Tap Add to Home screen or Install app, then Install or Add.
1. Tap ⋮2. Add to Home screen3. Tap Install
Mac (Safari)
Click File in the menu bar at the top of the screen (or the Share button in Safari's toolbar).
Click Add to Dock…, then Add. This needs macOS Sonoma or newer.
File → Add to Dock…
Computer (Chrome or Edge)
Click the install icon at the right end of the address bar (or the button above), then Install.
Click the install icon
The icon opens the site like an app, even without internet. If you switch away and come back, it returns to where you were reading.
The date card
Shows today's date, the next Sankathara Chaturthi and its moonrise time for where you are. Angaraki Sankathara Chaturthi (on a Tuesday) is marked.
📍 Pin: tap to use your phone's location. The town is worked out on the phone; your location is never sent anywhere.
The picture: tap the Ganesha picture on the card to see it full screen. Pinch or double-tap to zoom, drag to look around; ✕, Back or a tap outside closes it.
Fold the card: the round ⌃ button at the top right of the card, or a tap beside the picture, folds it to one line (Ganesha, the next date and moonrise); ⌄ or a tap on that line opens it again with all the buttons. On the home page the Ganesha home buttons (top bar title, bottom bar) do the same: tap to close the card, tap again to open it. Your phone remembers this. On Sankashti day the card opens by itself.
Fold what you don't need: the Contents button on the home page folds the list of pieces, and a tap anywhere on a piece's heading (or its round ⌃) folds that piece down to its heading; tap it again to open it. The Fold all / Open all button on the आरती / Aarti heading folds or opens every aarti at once. Your phone remembers these. Going to a folded piece from Contents or search opens it.
Only here for the aartis? Tap the पूजा / Pooja heading above the Atharvashirsha to fold the Pooja section away; tap it again (the arrow points down while folded) to bring it back. Your phone remembers this. Going to the Atharvashirsha from Contents, search or Previous opens it again. The आरती / Aarti heading folds the aartis the same way.
Autoscroll: turn it on in ⚙ Settings (Autoscroll); it is off until you do. A round ▶ then appears in the bottom bar; tap it and the page scrolls by itself through the Pooja and the aartis. It folds the home card and the contents, opens every piece, and starts from the piece on screen (or the first one). A section you have folded (Pooja or Aarti) is skipped. Each sung line gets the same time; − and + set the speed (1–10) of the piece you are on, and each piece remembers its own speed, since each has its own tempo. ‹ Prev and Next › go to the previous or next piece. With the dhrupad shown once, it waits at each ↻ ध्रुपद while the dhrupad is sung and shows it in the bubble. While it runs, Prev and Next make way for the speed, so one piece flows into the next. Scroll by hand any time, or hold a finger still to pause; when you let go it carries on from there. In Marathi + English it moves through each whole stanza, both languages, in the time the Marathi takes. ⏸ stops it. The screen stays on while it runs.
Date strip: swipe to see past and future dates; tap one to show it. “Back to next Sankathara Chaturthi” returns.
Calendar icon next to the date: adds that day's pooja (7:00–8:30 pm, at Bharatiya Hindu Temple when you are in central Ohio) to your calendar with a reminder 2 hours before.
Add all upcoming dates to calendar: adds every coming Sankathara Chaturthi at once.
On the day itself, the card shows the pooja time and how long until moonrise.
Buttons at the top
Home (Ganesha and title): back to the start. While you read, the title shows the piece on screen (for example ५. दत्ताची आरती).
Contents and search (lines with a magnifier): jump to any aarti, or type a few letters of a line in Marathi or English to find it. Plain letters are enough, and spelling is forgiving: sukhakarta, ganpati and vithal find sukhakartā, Ganapati and Vitthal. The matching words are shown in bold; tap a result to go to that line. On a computer you can type straight away, and use ↑ ↓ and Enter.
अ/A (language): switches the aarti text between your main language, your second language, and both together (pick them in Settings). With no second language, it opens the page to pick one.
धृ (dhrupad): show the refrain once at the top, or repeated after every stanza. In “once” mode, tap ↻ ध्रुपद under a stanza to see the refrain for a few seconds.
⚙ Settings: opens as its own page, over the reading page; ‹ Back (or your phone's Back) returns you to where you were. See below.
Settings
Settings is in four groups: Languages, Reading, Screen and About.
Main language: the language you read in, in large text: मराठी (the text as written), English (in English letters) or ಕನ್ನಡ (the same words in Kannada letters). Tap it to pick from a list; English is there twice, once for each spelling (see English spelling below). With Kannada the menus are in English, and the second language can be English or None.
Second language: shown smaller, under each line, when the अ/A button shows both. Pick the other language, or None to read in one language only. Choosing English as the main language makes Marathi the second, and the other way round.
Menus and buttons: English or your main language, for the date card, buttons and settings. With English as the main language, menus are in English.
Preview: the first lines of the Ganapati aarti, as your choices will show them.
English spelling: picked with English in the language list, as English · Sukhkarta or English · sukhakartā: how the English lines and the titles of the pieces are spelled.
Sukhkarta: the everyday spelling most of us read easily.
sukhakartā: the scholarly spelling (IAST), with exact sounds: ā ī ū for long vowels, ṭ ḍ ṇ for the hard sounds, ś ṣ for the two kinds of “sh”. In the Atharvashirsha it also shows the swara marks: a line under a syllable is the low note (anudātta) and a tick above is the svarita (bha̱draṃ karṇe̍bhiḥ).
It changes straight away and keeps your place.
Text font: how the aartis look. Standard (clean, already on your phone), Classic (book style, like a printed pothi), Bold (strong strokes, good in low light) or Handwritten. A new font downloads once when you pick it and then works offline. The Atharvashirsha keeps its Sanskrit lettering. Printing uses the same font.
Text size (A− / A+ / ↺ to reset).
Dhrupad: the refrain once at the top, or after every verse (the same as the धृ button).
Theme (Auto, Light, Sepia, Dark).
High contrast and Keep screen on: switches; tap to turn on or off. Keep screen on starts on for phones and tablets and off on computers.
About: this Help, Add to Home Screen (until the site is installed) and the version number (v1.0).
Layout (wide screens only): one or two columns of stanzas.
While reading
Tap a line to highlight it, so everyone can keep their place; its whole stanza gets a soft band too, so you find it again at a glance. Tap again to clear.
More room to read: on phones and tablets, the top and bottom bars slide away as you scroll down, leaving a thin strip with the name of the piece. Scroll up a little, tap a blank part of the page or the strip, or reach the end of the page to bring them back.
Pinch (on a computer: a trackpad pinch, or Ctrl + / Ctrl − and Ctrl 0 to reset; ⌘ on a Mac) or use A− / A+ in Settings to change the text size of the aartis (the home page stays readable at its normal size). The bubble shows the size (100% is the normal size for your screen); right after a pinch, tap ↺ Default size to go back to normal.
Back: your phone's Back button (or swipe) closes an open menu or box, then goes back to where you were before the last jump, for example from an aarti back to the contents.
Bottom bar (on every page):‹ Prev and Next › go to the neighbouring pieces (on the home page, Next opens the first piece); the Ganesha (home) and contents-and-search buttons work just like the ones at the top. Like the top bar it keeps its size when you change the text size or pinch, and it steps aside while Settings or Contents is open.
Tilt to scroll (phones and tablets): tap the tilted-phone button in the bottom bar, holding the phone however is comfortable. Lean the top of the phone away from you and the page moves down; lean it back towards you and it moves up. The further you lean, the faster it goes; hold it still and the page stays put. The dot in the bar shows the lean. Touch the page to hold it; when you let go, the way you are holding the phone then becomes the new "still". ⏸ stops it. On an iPhone, tap Allow when it asks for motion access (only the first time). The tilt is read on the phone; nothing is sent anywhere.
The screen stays on while the site is open (you can turn this off in Settings).
Share, QR and Print
These sit in one row at the bottom of the top card on the home page, with App and Help. On narrow phones the row shows icons only.
Share sends a ready reminder with the next date, pooja time, moonrise and the link, for WhatsApp or messages.
QR shows a code others can scan with their camera to open the site.
Print makes a printout or PDF of the contents and all the texts, in the language and English style you have chosen, in one or two columns, or Marathi and English side by side.
Good to know
Works without internet: the first time you open the site it is saved on your phone, and a short “Ready to use offline” note shows. Settings → About → Offline use says whether it is saved. With no internet, a small cloud with a line through it shows in the top bar: the saved copy is in use, and everything still works.
Getting updates: new changes load by themselves whenever you are online. To look straight away, open Settings: under About, the version on your phone is shown, and Check for updates shows “Checking…”, then “Up to date”, or reloads with the new version.
Privacy: your settings and location stay on your phone. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Moonrise times are calculated on your phone and may differ by a few minutes from printed calendars.
