आपन तेज सम्हारो आपै ।तीनों लोक हाँक तें काँपै ॥āpan tej samhāro āpaitīnoṁ lok hāṁk teṁ kāṁpai
Only you can hold your own power. At your roar the three worlds tremble.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 23, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 23
Meaning of “āpan tej samhāro āpai”
"āpan tej samhāro āpai" is Chaupai 23 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Only you can hold your own power. At your roar the three worlds tremble. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- आपनāpan
- your own
- तेजtej
- power
- सम्हारोsamhāro
- hold
- आपैāpai
- only you
- तीनोंtīnoṁ
- all three
- लोकlok
- worlds
- हाँकhāṁk
- roar
- तेंteṁ
- at
- काँपैkāṁpai
- tremble
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.
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.