Vande Mataram "mātár-" (Sanskrit), "méter" (Greek), "mâter" (Latin) which mean "mother". The first two verses of "Vande Mataram" adopted as the "National Song" read as follows: The complete original lyrics of the "Vande Mataram" is available at . The first translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel "Anandamath", including the poem "Vande Mataram", into English was by Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, with the fifth edition published in 1906 titled "The Abbey of Bliss". Here is the translation in prose of the above two stanzas rendered by Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. This has also been adopted by the Government of India's national portal. The original "Vande
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