Mantra
Devanagari:
प्रणमामि सदा मूर्तिमते
ॐ मुनये नमो नमः
Transliteration:
Pranamami Sada Murtimate
Om Munaye Namo Namaha
Translation:
I bow perpetually in devotion unto Lord Subrahmanya (Kartikeya), revered in the sacred epithet Murtimate,
Om, salutations again and again to Lord Subrahmanya (Kartikeya), the supreme contemplative sage.