Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 1
"jay hanumān jñān gun sāgar" is Chaupai 1 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Victory to Hanuman, ocean of wisdom and virtue. Victory to the lord of the vanaras, whose glory lights up the three worlds.
जय हनुमान ज्ञान गुन सागर ।जय कपीस तिहुँ लोक उजागर ॥jay hanumān jñān gun sāgarjay kapīs tihuṁ lok ujāgar
Victory to Hanuman, ocean of wisdom and virtue. Victory to the lord of the vanaras, whose glory lights up the three worlds.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 1, Gita Press reading
The Sundar Kand of the Manas opens with a Sanskrit verse to Hanuman that calls him first among the wise and a storehouse of every virtue.
अतुलितबलधामं हेमशैलाभदेहं दनुजवनकृशानुं ज्ञानिनामग्रगण्यम् । सकलगुणनिधानं वानराणामधीशं रघुपतिप्रियभक्तं वातजातं नमामि॥
Ramcharitmanas, Sundar Kand 5.1, shloka 3
Awadhi text: Goswami Tulsidas, Gita Press reading, checked against three Gita Press printings and Rambhadracharya's Mahaviri. English meaning and word glosses: Wisdom's own, following the traditional reading, edited by Ankur Shukla.