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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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युद्धकाण्डम्/सर्गः_८८6.88.p19283–6.88.p19287
युद्धकाण्डम्/सर्गः_८८6.88.p19283

Sanskrit · 6.88.p19283

मुमोच च शरान् घोरान् संगृह्य नरपुंगवः। अभीतवदनः क्रुद्धो रावणिं लक्ष्मणो युधि॥ ५१॥

English · Meaning

The best of men, with an unafraid face and angered, gathered and released terrible arrows at Rāvaṇa’s son in battle.

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युद्धकाण्डम्/सर्गः_८८6.88.p19284

Sanskrit · 6.88.p19284

नैवं रणगताः शूराः प्रहरन्ति निशाचर। लघवश्चाल्पवीर्याश्च शरा हीमे सुखास्तव॥ ५२॥

English · Meaning

Not thus do heroes who have entered battle strike, O night-ranger. Your arrows are light, of little force, and easy for me to bear.

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युद्धकाण्डम्/सर्गः_८८6.88.p19285

Sanskrit · 6.88.p19285

नैवं शूरास्तु युध्यन्ते समरे युद्धकाङ्क्षिणः। इत्येवं तं ब्रुवन् धन्वी शरैरभिववर्ष ह॥ ५३॥

English · Meaning

“Heroes desirous of battle do not fight in this way in combat.” Saying this to him, the bowman showered him with arrows.

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युद्धकाण्डम्/सर्गः_८८6.88.p19286

Sanskrit · 6.88.p19286

तस्य बाणैः सुविध्वस्तं कवचं काञ्चनं महत्। व्यशीर्यत रथोपस्थे ताराजालमिवाम्बरात्॥ ५४॥

English · Meaning

His arrows thoroughly shattered the great golden armor; it broke apart on the chariot platform like a net of stars falling from the sky.

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युद्धकाण्डम्/सर्गः_८८6.88.p19287

Sanskrit · 6.88.p19287

विधूतवर्मा नाराचैर्बभूव स कृतव्रणः। इन्द्रजित् समरे वीरः प्रत्यूषे भानुमानिव॥ ५५॥

English · Meaning

His armor shaken off, he became covered with wounds from the nārāca arrows—the heroic Indrajit in battle, like the sun at dawn.

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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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