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श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम्

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श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम् (Sanskrit Wikisource)

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

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Free Library: Sanskrit + transliteration + English + Hindi + Gujarati meanings. EN 24782/24782; HI 24782/24782; GU 24782/24782; chapters 645. Meanings are machine-assisted study drafts, not a scholarly edition.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१४1.14.p00541–1.14.p00545
बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१४1.14.p00541

Sanskrit · 1.14.p00541

दशकोटिं सुवर्णस्य रजतस्य चतुर्गुणम् । ऋत्विजस्तु ततः सर्वे प्रददुः सहिता वसु ॥१-१४-५१॥

English · Meaning

Ten crores of gold, and four times that amount of silver. Then all the officiating priests, together and united, gave the wealth.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१४1.14.p00542

Sanskrit · 1.14.p00542

ऋष्यशृङ्गाय मुनये वसिष्ठाय च धीमते । ततस्ते न्यायतः कृत्वा प्रविभागं द्विजोत्तमाः ॥१-१४-५२॥

English · Meaning

To the sage Ṛśyaśṛṅga and to the wise Vasiṣṭha. Then those excellent twice-born men, having made the division according to fairness, ...

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१४1.14.p00543

Sanskrit · 1.14.p00543

सुप्रीतमनसः सर्वे प्रत्यूचुर्मुदिता भृशम् । ततः प्रसर्पकेभ्यस्तु हिरण्यं सुसमाहितः ॥१-१४-५३॥

English · Meaning

All of them, their minds greatly pleased, replied, being intensely joyful. Then, fully composed, [he gave] gold to the prasarpakas. The exact sense of प्रसर्पकेभ्यः is uncertain here; literally it denotes those who move about or approach. The verb is implicit in the transmitted text, and the singular सुसमाहितः appears to describe the unstated giver.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१४1.14.p00544

Sanskrit · 1.14.p00544

जाम्बूनदं कोटिसंख्यं ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ददौ तदा । दरिद्राय द्विजायथ हस्ताभरणमुत्तमम् ॥१-१४-५४॥

English · Meaning

Then he gave Jāmbūnada gold amounting to a crore in number to the Brāhmaṇas; and to a poor twice-born man he gave an excellent hand-ornament.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१४1.14.p00545

Sanskrit · 1.14.p00545

कस्मैचित् याचमानाय ददौ राघवनन्दनः । ततः प्रीतेषु विधिवत् द्विजेषु द्विजवत्सलः ॥१-१४-५५॥

English · Meaning

To a certain petitioner Rāghavanandana gave; then, when the Brāhmaṇas had been duly satisfied, the Brāhmaṇa-loving one [proceeded further / the action moved on].

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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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