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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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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_५७5.57.p14633–5.57.p14637
सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_५७5.57.p14633

Sanskrit · 5.57.p14633

श्रीमद्वाल्मीकियरामायणे सुन्दरकाण्डे सप्तपञ्चाशः सर्गः ॥५-५७॥ आप्लुत्य च महावेगः पक्षवानिव पर्वतः। भुजङ्गयक्षगन्धर्वप्रबुद्धकमलोत्पलम्॥ १॥

English · Meaning

In the glorious Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, in the Sundarakāṇḍa, this is the fifty-seventh canto. And having leapt, he of great speed, like a winged mountain, [moved over that expanse] where snakes, yakṣas, and gandharvas were present and where lotuses and blue lilies were opened out.

5.57.p146331 / 50
सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_५७5.57.p14634

Sanskrit · 5.57.p14634

स चन्द्रकुमुदं रम्यं सार्ककारण्डवं शुभम्। तिष्यश्रवणकादम्बमभ्रशैवलशाद्वलम्॥ २॥

English · Meaning

It was charming, with moon-white water-lilies, lovely, with ospreys or water-birds and ducks, auspicious, with the asterisms Tiṣya and Śravaṇa as its geese, and with clouds as its moss and green sward.

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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_५७5.57.p14635

Sanskrit · 5.57.p14635

पुनर्वसुमहामीनं लोहिताङ्गमहाग्रहम्। ऐरावतमहाद्वीपं स्वातीहंसविलासितम्॥ ३॥

English · Meaning

The sky appeared like a great ocean-fish under the asterism Punarvasu, like the great planet Mars with its red limbs, like the great continent Airāvata, and adorned by the graceful movement of the swans of Svātī.

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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_५७5.57.p14636

Sanskrit · 5.57.p14636

वातसंघातजालोर्मिचन्द्रांशुशिशिराम्बुमत्। हनूमानपरिश्रान्तः पुप्लुवे गगनार्णवम्॥ ४॥

English · Meaning

Hanuman, unwearied, flew across the sky-ocean, which had waves formed by masses of wind and water cooled by the moonbeams.

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सुन्दरकाण्डम्/सर्गः_५७5.57.p14637

Sanskrit · 5.57.p14637

ग्रसमान इवाकाशं ताराधिपमिवोल्लिखन्। हरन्निव सनक्षत्रं गगनं सार्कमण्डलम्॥ ५॥

English · Meaning

As if swallowing the sky, as if scraping up the lord of the stars, and as if carrying away the sky with its stars and the orb of the sun, he went 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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