Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 14

Meaning of “sanakādik brahmādi munīsā”

"sanakādik brahmādi munīsā" is Chaupai 14 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Sanaka and his brothers, Brahma and the gods, the great sages, Narada and Saraswati, with Shesha, lord of serpents, Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.

सनकादिक ब्रह्मादि मुनीसा ।नारद सारद सहित अहीसा ॥sanakādik brahmādi munīsānārad sārad sahit ahīsā

Sanaka and his brothers, Brahma and the gods, the great sages, Narada and Saraswati, with Shesha, lord of serpents,

Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 14, Gita Press reading

Word by word

सनकादिकsanakādik
Sanaka and his brothers
ब्रह्मादिbrahmādi
Brahma and the gods
मुनीसाmunīsā
the great sages
नारदnārad
Narada
सारदsārad
Sharada, Saraswati
सहितsahit
with
अहीसाahīsā
Shesha, lord of serpents

Where this happens in the Ramayana

This line praises Hanuman or speaks to the reader. It does not retell one episode, so there is no single place in the Ramayana to point to.

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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.