भीम रूप धरि असुर सँहारे ।रामचंद्र के काज सँवारे ॥bhīm rūp dhari asur saṁhārerāmcandra ke kāj saṁvāre
Taking a terrible form, you destroyed the asuras and carried Rama's work through.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 10, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 10
Meaning of “bhīm rūp dhari asur saṁhāre”
"bhīm rūp dhari asur saṁhāre" is Chaupai 10 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Taking a terrible form, you destroyed the asuras and carried Rama's work through. In the Ashoka grove Ravana sends his son Akshay Kumar with an army. Hanuman pulls up a tree, strikes him down and roars.
Word by word
- भीमbhīm
- terrible
- रूपrūp
- form
- धरिdhari
- taking
- असुरasur
- asuras, the rakshasas
- सँहारेsaṁhāre
- destroyed
- रामचंद्र केrāmcandra ke
- Ramachandra's
- काजkāj
- tasks
- सँवारेsaṁvāre
- carried through
Where this happens in the Ramayana
In the Ashoka grove Ravana sends his son Akshay Kumar with an army. Hanuman pulls up a tree, strikes him down and roars.
पुनि पठयउ तेहिं अच्छकुमारा। चला संग लै सुभट अपारा॥
Ramcharitmanas, Sundar Kand 5.16, chaupai 4
Sources and method
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.