अष्ट सिद्धि नौ निधि के दाता ।अस बर दीन जानकी माता ॥aṣṭ siddhi nau nidhi ke dātāas bar dīn jānakī mātā
You can give the eight siddhis and the nine treasures. Mother Janaki gave you this boon.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 31, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 31
Meaning of “aṣṭ siddhi nau nidhi ke dātā”
"aṣṭ siddhi nau nidhi ke dātā" is Chaupai 31 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: You can give the eight siddhis and the nine treasures. Mother Janaki gave you this boon. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- अष्टaṣṭ
- eight
- सिद्धिsiddhi
- yogic powers
- नौnau
- nine
- निधिnidhi
- treasures
- केke
- of
- दाताdātā
- giver
- असas
- such a
- बरbar
- boon
- दीनdīn
- gave
- जानकीjānakī
- Janaki, Sita
- माताmātā
- mother
Where this happens in the Ramayana
In the Ashoka grove Sita blesses Hanuman: may he be ageless, deathless and a storehouse of virtue. The boon of siddhis and treasures is the Chalisa's own telling.
अजर अमर गुननिधि सुत होहू। करहुँ बहुत रघुनायक छोहू॥
Ramcharitmanas, Sundar Kand 5.15, chaupai 2
Other readings
- Some editions, including Rambhadracharya's, read नव निधि and दीन्ह.
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.