Lyric and background history of song raja maharaja ke jane

This page contains lyric of Tagore song raja maharaja ke jane and its transliteration in English with background history. Background of the song includes the place and date of the song written by Rabindranath, name of the newspaper or magazine the song was first published in and the name of the person who had prepared the notation or swaralipi. This page also contains the musical composition of song like parjaay, taal, raag and ango.

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Raaja maharaaja ke jaane, aami-i raajadhiraj.
Tumi ujir, kotoyal tumi,
Oi chnoragulo barkandaj.
Jato sab knure aachhe thnai jure,
Kaajer belay budhi jaay ure.
Paa dhobar jaal niye aay jhat,
Kar tora sab je jaar kaaj.

• Lyric and background history with taal, raag, parjaay. Transliterate in English.
• Bengali notation / swaralipi
• Staff notation (Western)
• English translation
• Hindi translation