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रामायणम्

श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम्

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श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम् (Sanskrit Wikisource)

The unabridged Sanskrit, 645 sargas, every verse numbered kanda.sarga.verse.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१1.1.p00051–1.1.p00055
बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१1.1.p00051

Sanskrit · 1.1.p00051

न विरोधो बलवता क्षमो रावण तेन ते । अनादृत्य तु तद्वाक्यं रावणः कालचोदितः ॥१-१-५१॥

English · Meaning

O Rāvaṇa, you are not capable of opposing that mighty one. But, disregarding those words, Rāvaṇa, impelled by fate, [acted].

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१1.1.p00052

Sanskrit · 1.1.p00052

जगाम सहमारीचस्तस्याश्रमपदं तदा । तेन मायाविना दूरमपवाह्य नृपात्मजौ ॥१-१-५२॥

English · Meaning

Then he went with Mārīca to his hermitage, after the two princes had been led far away by that illusion-wielding one.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१1.1.p00053

Sanskrit · 1.1.p00053

जहार भार्यां रामस्य गृध्रं हत्वा जटायुषम् । गृध्रञ्च निहतं दृष्ट्वा हृतां श्रुत्वा च मैथिलीम् ॥१-१-५३॥

English · Meaning

He carried away Rāma’s wife, having killed the vulture Jatāyu; and, seeing the vulture slain and hearing that Maithilī had been carried away, ...

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१1.1.p00054

Sanskrit · 1.1.p00054

राघवः शोकसंतप्तो विललापाकुलेन्द्रियः । ततस्तेनैव शोकेन गृध्रं दग्ध्वा जटायुषम् ॥१-१-५४॥

English · Meaning

Rāghava, scorched by grief and with his senses distraught, lamented. Then, with that very grief, having burned the vulture Jatāyu, [he proceeded].

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१1.1.p00055

Sanskrit · 1.1.p00055

मार्गमाणो वने सीतां राक्षसं सन्ददर्श ह । कबन्धं नाम रूपेण विकृतं घोरदर्शनम् ॥१-१-५५॥

English · Meaning

While searching for Sītā in the forest, he saw a Rākṣasa, indeed—Kabandha by name, deformed in appearance and terrible to behold.

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Contents

645 chapters
  1. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१
  2. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_२
  3. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_३
  4. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_४
  5. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_५
  6. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_६
  7. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_७
  8. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_८
  9. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_९
  10. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१०
  11. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_११
  12. बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१२

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The unabridged Sanskrit, 645 sargas, every verse numbered kanda.sarga.verse. Not a translation: this is the text every English witness is checked against, and the one the Sarvam pass translates. Whole-edition checksum is pinned through the TOC (corpus:check), not per page.

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