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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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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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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१२2.12.p02958–2.12.p02962
अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१२2.12.p02958

Sanskrit · 2.12.p02958

श्रुत्वा तु राजा कैकेय्या वाक्यं परमशोभनम्। रामस्य च वने वासमैश्वर्यं भरतस्य च॥ ५१॥

English · Meaning

But the king, having heard Kaikeyī’s exceedingly pleasing words—Rāma’s dwelling in the forest, and Bharata’s sovereignty...

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१२2.12.p02959

Sanskrit · 2.12.p02959

नाभ्यभाषत कैकेयीं मुहूर्तं व्याकुलेन्द्रियः। प्रैक्षतानिमिषो देवीं प्रियामप्रियवादिनीम्॥ ५२॥

English · Meaning

For a moment the king, his senses agitated, did not address Kaikeyi; he gazed without blinking at the queen, his beloved, who was speaking what was unwelcome.

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१२2.12.p02960

Sanskrit · 2.12.p02960

तां हि वज्रसमां वाचमाकर्ण्य हृदयाप्रियाम्। दुःखशोकमयीं श्रुत्वा राजा न सुखितोऽभवत्॥ ५३॥

English · Meaning

Hearing that speech, like a thunderbolt and unpleasant to the heart, and hearing it as filled with suffering and grief, the king did not become happy.

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१२2.12.p02961

Sanskrit · 2.12.p02961

स देव्या व्यवसायं च घोरं च शपथं कृतम्। ध्यात्वा रामेति निःश्वस्य च्छिन्नस्तरुरिवापतत्॥ ५४॥

English · Meaning

Having contemplated the queen's resolve and the terrible oath she had made, and having sighed while thinking, “Rama!”, he fell like a tree that has been cut down.

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_१२2.12.p02962

Sanskrit · 2.12.p02962

नष्टचित्तो यथोन्मत्तो विपरीतो यथातुरः। हृततेजा यथा सर्पो बभूव जगतीपतिः॥ ५५॥

English · Meaning

The lord of the earth became as one whose mind was destroyed, as one who was mad, deranged as one who was sick, and deprived of vigor like a serpent.

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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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