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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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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_३७5.37.p13867–5.37.p13871
सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_३७5.37.p13867

Sanskrit · 5.37.p13867

सायुधा बहवो व्योम्नि राक्षसास्त्वं निरायुधः। कथं शक्ष्यसि संयातुं मां चैव परिरक्षितुम्॥ ५१॥

English · Meaning

There are many armed demons in the sky, while you are unarmed. How will you be able to engage them and also protect me?

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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_३७5.37.p13868

Sanskrit · 5.37.p13868

युध्यमानस्य रक्षोभिस्ततस्तैः क्रूरकर्मभिः। प्रपतेयं हि ते पृष्ठाद् भयार्ता कपिसत्तम॥ ५२॥

English · Meaning

While you are fighting with those demons of cruel deeds, I would indeed fall from your back, terrified, O best of monkeys. The transmitted form रक्षोभिस्ततस्तैः is read contextually as referring to those demons; its exact internal segmentation is uncertain, with literal possibilities including ‘with demons, with those very ones.’

5.37.p138682 / 20
सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_३७5.37.p13869

Sanskrit · 5.37.p13869

अथ रक्षांसि भीमानि महान्ति बलवन्ति च। कथंचित् साम्पराये त्वां जयेयुः कपिसत्तम॥ ५३॥

English · Meaning

Then, if the terrifying, great, and powerful demons should somehow defeat you in battle, O best of monkeys—

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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_३७5.37.p13870

Sanskrit · 5.37.p13870

अथवा युध्यमानस्य पतेयं विमुखस्य ते। पतितां च गृहीत्वा मां नयेयुः पापराक्षसाः॥ ५४॥

English · Meaning

Or, while you are fighting and turned away, I might fall from your back; and the wicked demons, seizing me after I had fallen, might carry me away.

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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_३७5.37.p13871

Sanskrit · 5.37.p13871

मां वा हरेयुस्त्वद्धस्ताद् विशसेयुरथापि वा। अनवस्थौ हि दृश्येते युद्धे जयपराजयौ॥ ५५॥

English · Meaning

Or they might carry me away from your grasp, or else they might kill me. For in battle victory and defeat are indeed seen to be uncertain.

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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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