जो सत बार पाठ कर कोई ।छूटहि बंदि महा सुख होई ॥jo sat bār pāṭh kar koīchūṭahi bandi mahā sukh hoī
Whoever recites this a hundred times is freed from bondage and finds great joy.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 38, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 38
Meaning of “jo sat bār pāṭh kar koī”
"jo sat bār pāṭh kar koī" is Chaupai 38 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Whoever recites this a hundred times is freed from bondage and finds great joy. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- जोjo
- whoever
- सतsat
- a hundred
- बारbār
- times
- पाठpāṭh
- recitation
- करkar
- does
- कोईkoī
- anyone
- छूटहिchūṭahi
- is freed
- बंदिbandi
- bondage
- महाmahā
- great
- सुखsukh
- joy
- होईhoī
- comes
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's Mahaviri reads जो शत बार ... छुटहिं. Some popular printings read यह सत बार.
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.