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|english_title = Victory to Proud Gujarat

"'''Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat'''" ({{IPA-gu|dʒəj dʒəj ˈgəɾ(ə)ʋi ˈgudʒ(ə)ɾat|pron|}}; "Victory to Proud Gujarat") is a poem written by Gujarati poet [[Narmadashankar Dave]] in 1873. It is used as a state anthem during ceremonies of the [[Government of Gujarat]].<ref name="DeshGujarat2011">{{cite web | title=Newest version of Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat song launched(Video) | website=DeshGujarat | date=2011-05-07 | url=http://deshgujarat.com/2011/05/07/newest-version-of-jay-jay-garvi-gujarat-song-launchedvideo/ | access-date=2016-11-12}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Ibrahim|first=Farhana|date=2012|title=The Region and Its Margins: Re-Appropriations of the Border from 'Mahagujarat' to 'Swarnim Gujarat'|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23251801|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=47|issue=32|pages=66–72|issn=0012-9976|via=JSTOR}}</ref>

Narmad is considered the first modern Gujarati writer. He wrote the poem in 1873 as the foreword of his first Gujarati dictionary, ''[[Narmakosh]]''.<ref name="toi2010">{{cite web|author1=Bharat Yagnik |author2=Ashish Vashi|title=No Gujarati dept in Veer Narmad, Hemchandracharya varsities |website=[[The Times of India]] | date=2 July 2010 | url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/TOI/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOI&BaseHref=TOIA%2F2010%2F07%2F02&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=5&EntityId=Ar00503&AppName=1 | access-date=13 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="Tevani2003">{{cite book|last=Tevani|first=Shailesh|title=C.C. Mehta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AbLPU10RFUYC&pg=PA67|access-date=13 November 2016|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1676-1|page=67}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

In this poem, Narmad epitomises the sense of pride in the region by identifying the region of [[Gujarati people]]. He delineates the boundary within which the Gujarati-speaking population live: [[Ambaji]] in the north; [[Pavagadh]] in the east; Kunteshwar Mahadev near [[Vapi]] in the south; and [[Somnath]], [[Dwarka]] in the west. This region mentioned by him now forms modern-day [[Gujarat]], the western state of India.<ref name="toi2010"/><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Desai|first=Rakesh|date=2014|title=Scripting a Region: Narmad's Idea of Gujarat|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44753748|journal=Indian Literature|volume=58|issue=3 (281)|pages=175–187|issn=0019-5804}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> At the end of the poem, Narmad gives hope to the people of Gujarat that the dark clouds is lifting, and a new dawn is about to emerge.<ref name="TridipSuhrud">{{cite book |last=Suhrud|first=Tridip|author-link=Tridip Suhrud|title=Narrations of a Nation: Explorations Through Intellectual Biographies|chapter=Narmadashankar Lalshankar: Towards History and Self Knowing|chapter-url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/46631/7/07_chapter%202.pdf|publisher=School of Social Sciences, [[Gujarat University]]|location=Ahmedabad|type=Ph.D|pages=33|hdl=10603/46631}}</ref>

In 2011, the composition sung by various Gujarati singers was released by Government of Gujarat.<ref name="DeshGujarat2011"/>

==Lyrics==

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Dīpē aruṇuṁ parabhāta,  

Jaya jaya garavī gujarāta!

Tuṁ bhaṇava bhaṇava nija santaji sa'unē,  

Prēma bhaktinī rīta

Ūn̄cī tuja sundara jāta,  

Jaya jaya garavī gujarāta.

Pūravamāṁ kāḷī māta,

Chē dakṣiṇa diśamāṁ karanta rakṣā, kuntēśvara mahādēva;

Nē sōmanātha nē d'dhārakēśa ē,  

Paśvima kērā dēvachē sahāyamāṁ sākṣāta,

Jaya jaya garavī gujarāta.

Mahī nē bījī paṇa jōya.

Ratnākara sāgara;

Parvata uparathī vīra pūrvajō,  

Dē āśiṣa jayakara sampē sōyē sa'u jāta,  

Jaya jaya garavī gujarāta.

Tē sid'dhrarāja jayasiṅga.

Thaśē satvarē māta!

Vītī ga'ī chē rāta.

Jaya jaya garavī gujarāta.