Hanuman Chalisa, Closing doha

Meaning of “pavantanay saṅkaṭ haran maṅgal mūrati rūp”

"pavantanay saṅkaṭ haran maṅgal mūrati rūp" is closing doha of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Son of the Wind, remover of trouble, whose very form is blessing: king among the gods, live in my heart with Rama, Lakshmana and Sita.

पवनतनय संकट हरन मंगल मूरति रूप ।राम लखन सीता सहित हृदय बसहु सुर भूप ॥pavantanay saṅkaṭ haran maṅgal mūrati rūprām lakhan sītā sahit hṛday basahu sur bhūp

Son of the Wind, remover of trouble, whose very form is blessing: king among the gods, live in my heart with Rama, Lakshmana and Sita.

Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Closing doha, Gita Press reading

Word by word

पवनतनयpavantanay
son of the Wind
संकटsaṅkaṭ
trouble
हरनharan
remover
मंगलmaṅgal
blessing
मूरतिmūrati
embodiment
रूपrūp
form
रामrām
Rama
लखनlakhan
Lakshmana
सीताsītā
Sita
सहितsahit
with
हृदयhṛday
heart
बसहुbasahu
please live
सुरsur
of the gods
भूपbhūp
king

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

  • Some Gita Press printings spell लखन as लषन, the older spelling, read the same way.

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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.