जो यह पढ़ै हनुमान चलीसा ।होय सिद्धि साखी गौरीसा ॥jo yah paṛhai hanumān calīsāhoy siddhi sākhī gaurīsā
Whoever reads this Hanuman Chalisa gains fulfilment. Shiva, lord of Gauri, is witness.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 39, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 39
Meaning of “jo yah paṛhai hanumān calīsā”
"jo yah paṛhai hanumān calīsā" is Chaupai 39 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Whoever reads this Hanuman Chalisa gains fulfilment. Shiva, lord of Gauri, is witness. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- जोjo
- whoever
- यहyah
- this
- पढ़ैpaṛhai
- reads
- हनुमानhanumān
- Hanuman
- चलीसाcalīsā
- the forty verses, the Chalisa
- होयhoy
- comes
- सिद्धिsiddhi
- fulfilment
- साखीsākhī
- witness
- गौरीसाgaurīsā
- Shiva, lord of Gauri
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
- The Gita Press and Rambhadracharya both print चलीसा, which keeps the metre. Most families sing चालीसा.
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.