जा जा रे अपने मंदिरवा

jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa (Hindi: जा जा रे अपने मंदिरवा, Urdu: جا جا رے اپنے مندروا) "Go, go back to your home" is a traditional bandish, a short fixed composition in khayal, the main vocal genre of Hindustani classical music. The text is attributed to Sadarang, the pen name widely identified with Niyamat Khan, an 18th-century musician at the court of Muhammad Shah "Rangila" in Delhi and a key figure in the shaping of khayal. As in many bandish, his name appears within the verses as a signature. In the lyrics, a woman urges her lover to leave before her mother-in-law and sister-in-law hear them, then playfully reproaches him for having beguiled her. Here "mandir" means "home" or "dwelling" rather than "temple," and the suffix -vaa gives it the affectionate, rustic flavor typical of song language.

Although the speaker is a woman, it is not unusual for the song to be sung by men: in khayal the poetic voice of a bandish is conventionally that of a female lover, and male and female singers alike perform these compositions without changing the text.

Since a bandish is only a skeleton, singers build the performance through improvisation, most notably sargam, in which they sing the names of the notes (sa re ga ma pa dha ni). Each improvised passage drifts away from the refrain and resolves by landing back on "jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa" exactly on the first beat of the rhythmic cycle. Only the traditional verses come from Sadarang. The two middle stanzas were written by IP Singh for "Ja Ja Re," a 2021 arrangement by Salim-Sulaiman for their independent album Bhoomi 2021, sung by Vishal Dadlani, Sattar Khan and Langa folk musicians from Rajasthan.