बिद्यावान गुनी अति चातुर ।राम काज करिबे को आतुर ॥bidyāvān gunī ati cāturrām kāj karibe ko ātur
Learned, full of virtue and very wise, you are always eager to do Rama's work.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 7, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 7
Meaning of “bidyāvān gunī ati cātur”
"bidyāvān gunī ati cātur" is Chaupai 7 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Learned, full of virtue and very wise, you are always eager to do Rama's work. Over the ocean, the mountain Mainaka rises and offers him rest. Hanuman touches it, bows, and says there is no rest for him until Rama's work is done.
Word by word
- बिद्यावानbidyāvān
- learned
- गुनीgunī
- full of virtue
- अतिati
- very
- चातुरcātur
- wise, clever
- रामrām
- Rama's
- काजkāj
- work
- करिबे कोkaribe ko
- to do
- आतुरātur
- eager
Where this happens in the Ramayana
Over the ocean, the mountain Mainaka rises and offers him rest. Hanuman touches it, bows, and says there is no rest for him until Rama's work is done.
हनूमान तेहि परसा कर पुनि कीन्ह प्रनाम। राम काजु कीन्हें बिनु मोहि कहाँ बिश्राम॥
Ramcharitmanas, Sundar Kand 5.1, doha 1
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.