what is the meaning of the song vande mataram?
'"Vande Mataram" (IAST: Vande Mātaram) ( transl. Mother, I bow to thee) is a heavily Sanskrit language - Bengali poem written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1870s, which he included in his 1882 Bengali novel Anandamath. ... The title 'Vande Mataram' means "I praise thee, Mother" or "I praise to thee, Mother".