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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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श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम् (Sanskrit Wikisource)

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_१८1.18.p00712–1.18.p00716
बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१८1.18.p00712

Sanskrit · 1.18.p00712

यथा सदृशदारेषु पुत्रजन्माप्रजस्य वै । प्रणष्टस्य यथा लाभो यथा हर्षो महोदयः ॥१-१८-५१॥

English · Meaning

“As the birth of a son to a childless man who has suitable wives, as the gain of one who has lost something, as joy that is great prosperity.”

1.18.p007121 / 11
बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१८1.18.p00713

Sanskrit · 1.18.p00713

तथैवागमनं मन्ये स्वागतं ते महामुने । कं च ते परमं कामं करोमि किमु हर्षितः ॥१-१८-५२॥

English · Meaning

“Just so I regard your coming, O great sage, and welcome to you. What supreme desire of yours shall I fulfill? What else [should I do], being delighted?”

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१८1.18.p00714

Sanskrit · 1.18.p00714

पात्रभूतोऽसि मे विप्र दिष्ट्या प्राप्तोऽसि मानद । अद्य मे सफलं जन्म जीवितं च सुजीवितम् ॥१-१८-५३॥

English · Meaning

O brahmin, giver of honor, you have become worthy of me; by good fortune you have come. Today my birth is fruitful, and my life has been well-lived.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१८1.18.p00715

Sanskrit · 1.18.p00715

यस्माद् विप्रेन्द्रमद्राक्षं सुप्रभाता निशा मम । पूर्वं राजर्षिशब्देन तपसा द्योतितप्रभः ॥१-१८-५४॥

English · Meaning

“Because I have seen the foremost of brahmins, my night has dawned auspiciously. You, formerly radiant in splendor through asceticism and known by the designation ‘royal sage’...” The sentence continues beyond this unit.

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बालकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१८1.18.p00716

Sanskrit · 1.18.p00716

ब्रह्मर्षित्वमनुप्राप्तः पूज्योऽसि बहुधा मया । तदद्भुतमभूद् विप्र पवित्रं परमं मम ॥१-१८-५५॥

English · Meaning

Having attained the state of a Brahmarṣi, you are worthy of honor by me in many ways. That became for me something wondrous, O brāhmaṇa, supremely purifying.

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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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