त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव। त्वमेव बन्धुश्च सखा त्वमेव। त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणं त्वमेव। त्वमेव सर्वं मम देव देव॥

Tvameva mata is a short Sanskrit prayer of complete reliance that many Indians know from childhood. It is attributed to a Pandava Gita, a title that some traditions use for a text in which the Pandavas address Krishna, but the verse is also sung widely as a free-standing prayer, and attributions vary, so it is safest to treat the source as traditional rather than as a precisely cited line. It is often among the prayers that close a puja, a temple visit or a school assembly.

The grammar is a series of equations. Tvam eva means you alone, and each following word names a relationship. Mata and pita are mother and father, bandhu is a relative or kinsman, and sakha is a friend. Vidya is knowledge, and dravinam is wealth. The refrain of tvam eva repeated in every pada gives the verse its rhythm and its force. The final line gathers all of this into sarvam mama deva deva, you are everything to me, O God of gods.

What the verse does is move through the whole range of human support, from family to friendship to learning to material security, and place the divine in each position. It does not deny these relationships; it names them as the ways in which divine care shows up in life. Because it can be addressed to any form of God, it appears in Vaishnava, Shaiva and Shakta settings alike. Many devotees say it silently with folded hands after aarti or at the close of daily prayer, as an expression of gratitude and trust.