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Hanuman Chalisa — closing doha

The couplet that closes the Chalisa, asking Hanuman to live in the heart along with Rama, Lakshmana and Sita.

Hanuman Chalisa, Tulsidas closing dohaedition

Sanskrit · संस्कृत

पवनतनय संकट हरन मंगल मूरति रूप । राम लखन सीता सहित हृदय बसहु सुर भूप ॥

pavanatanaya saṃkaṭa harana maṃgala mūrati rūpa । rāma lakhana sītā sahita hṛdaya basahu sura bhūpa ॥

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Meaning

Son of the wind, remover of distress, form in which all good is embodied — king among gods, dwell in my heart together with Rama, Lakshmana and Sita.

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

A *doha*, recited as the seal of a Chalisa reading. Commonly followed by the Hanuman arti, which is a separate composition.

Time: Tuesday, Saturday

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

The Chalisa ends by asking for residence, not rescue. *Hṛdaya basahu* — dwell in the heart — is the request, and it is made for **four** guests rather than one: Hanuman is asked to come in company, bringing Rama, Lakshmana and Sita with him. That is the same move the opening doha makes in the other direction. The hymn begins by praising Rama's glory rather than Hanuman's and ends by asking Hanuman to arrive with Rama's household — so the forty chaupais of praise in between are bracketed, at both ends, by pointing past their subject. This record is the closing couplet only; the complete text is at `/mantras/hanuman-chalisa`.

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)Visarjana (farewell)

Classified as Stotra — Devotional hymn literature — praise poetry rather than a Vedic formula. Basis for this classification.

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