Pauranic · पौराणिकDhyana shloka

Atulita Baladhamam

The companion dhyana verse to Manojavam — seat of immeasurable strength, a fire to the demon forest, first among the wise.

Hanuman dhyana shloka; recited at the opening of the Sundarkand the four-line dhyana verseedition

Hanuman ·

Sanskrit · संस्कृत

अतुलित बलधामं स्वर्ण शैलाभदेहम् दनुजवन कृशानं ज्ञानिनां अग्रगण्यम् । सकल गुण निधानं वानराणां अधीशम् रघुपति प्रिय भक्तं वात जातं नमामि ॥

atulita baladhāmaṃ svarṇa śailābhadeham danujavana kṛśānaṃ jñānināṃ agragaṇyam । sakala guṇa nidhānaṃ vānarāṇāṃ adhīśam raghupati priya bhaktaṃ vāta jātaṃ namāmi ॥

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Meaning

Seat of immeasurable strength, his body like a golden mountain, a fire to the forest of demons, first to be counted among the wise, storehouse of every virtue, lord of the vanaras, beloved devotee of Rama — I bow to the son of the wind.

This rendering is by a DharmSetu editor, not a quotation from a published translation. Compare with the public-domain translation.

A Hindi meaning has not been written for this mantra yet. Hindi is authored by a named editor rather than machine-translated, so it arrives more slowly.

How to recite

Four lines in *mālinī*. Paired with Manojavam, and recited before it in most usages.

Time: Before a Sundarkand reading

Pronunciation key — sounds commonly got wrong

ट ठ ड ढ ण · ṭ ṭh ḍ ḍh ṇ: Retroflex — the tongue curls back and touches the roof of the mouth. Distinct from the dental त थ द ध न, where the tongue touches the teeth.
श ष स · ś ṣ s: Three different sounds: ś as in “shy”, ṣ retroflex and further back, s plain. Collapsing them changes words.
ः · ḥ (visarga): A soft outward breath echoing the preceding vowel — not a hard “ha”.
ं · ṃ (anusvara): Nasalises the vowel; the closing sound follows the consonant that comes next.
Long vs short vowels — a / ā, i / ī, u / ū: Vowel length is meaningful in Sanskrit. Hold the macron vowels roughly twice as long.
Aspirated consonants — kh, gh, ch, th, dh, ph, bh: A distinct puff of breath. ph is an aspirated p, never an English “f”.

Context

Recited together with *Manojavam* at the opening of a Sundarkand reading; the two are usually learnt as a pair. The striking image is *danuja-vana-kṛśānum* — a wildfire in the forest of demons — which is a claim about scale rather than about combat: fire does not fight a forest. Note again that *jñānināṁ agragaṇyam*, first among the wise, sits directly beside the strength, in the same order of priority the tradition keeps for Hanuman. The edition used here reads **स्वर्ण शैलाभदेहम्** (golden mountain); many printed texts read **हेमशैलाभदेहं**, with the same sense. The variant is noted rather than silently normalised.

Shadanga — the six limbs

The traditional analytic frame for a mantra. Blank limbs are simply not recorded for this text.

devata: Hanuman

Recited at / traditionally recited for

Dhyana (meditation)Sankalpa (intention)

Classified as Pauranic — From the Puranas. Most widely recited deity mantras belong here. Basis for this classification.

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