सब पर राम तपस्वी राजा ।तिन के काज सकल तुम साजा ॥sab par rām tapasvī rājātin ke kāj sakal tum sājā
Rama, the ascetic king, is above all, and you carried out every one of his tasks.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 27, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 27
Meaning of “sab par rām tapasvī rājā”
"sab par rām tapasvī rājā" is Chaupai 27 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Rama, the ascetic king, is above all, and you carried out every one of his tasks. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- सब परsab par
- above all
- रामrām
- Rama
- तपस्वीtapasvī
- ascetic
- राजाrājā
- king
- तिन केtin ke
- his
- काजkāj
- tasks
- सकलsakal
- all
- तुमtum
- you
- साजाsājā
- carried out
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.
Other readings
- Rambhadracharya, in his Mahaviri commentary, reads सब पर राम राय सिरताजा, "Rama, crown of kings, is above all".
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.