Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 3

Meaning of “mahābīr bikram bajraṅgī”

"mahābīr bikram bajraṅgī" is Chaupai 3 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Great hero, valiant, with a body as strong as the thunderbolt, you clear away bad thinking and stay beside good sense. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.

महाबीर बिक्रम बजरंगी ।कुमति निवार सुमति के संगी ॥mahābīr bikram bajraṅgīkumati nivār sumati ke saṅgī

Great hero, valiant, with a body as strong as the thunderbolt, you clear away bad thinking and stay beside good sense.

Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 3, Gita Press reading

Word by word

महाबीरmahābīr
great hero
बिक्रमbikram
valiant
बजरंगीbajraṅgī
with limbs like the thunderbolt (vajra)
कुमतिkumati
bad thinking
निवारnivār
remover
सुमतिsumati
good sense
केke
of
संगीsaṅgī
companion

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.