कंचन बरन बिराज सुबेसा ।कानन कुंडल कुंचित केसा ॥kañcan baran birāj subesākānan kuṇḍal kuñcit kesā
Your colour is gold and your dress is fine. Rings shine in your ears and your hair is curled.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 4, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 4
Meaning of “kañcan baran birāj subesā”
"kañcan baran birāj subesā" is Chaupai 4 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Your colour is gold and your dress is fine. Rings shine in your ears and your hair is curled. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- कंचनkañcan
- gold
- बरनbaran
- colour
- बिराजbirāj
- shining
- सुबेसाsubesā
- finely dressed
- काननkānan
- in the ears
- कुंडलkuṇḍal
- earrings
- कुंचितkuñcit
- curly
- केसाkesā
- hair
Where this happens in the Ramayana
The Sundar Kand opening verse describes his body shining like a golden mountain, and in the Ashoka grove he shows Sita a body like a mountain of gold.
अतुलितबलधामं हेमशैलाभदेहं दनुजवनकृशानुं ज्ञानिनामग्रगण्यम् । सकलगुणनिधानं वानराणामधीशं रघुपतिप्रियभक्तं वातजातं नमामि॥
Ramcharitmanas, Sundar Kand 5.1, shloka 3
कनक भूधराकार सरीरा। समर भयंकर अतिबल बीरा॥
Ramcharitmanas, Sundar Kand 5.14, chaupai 4
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.