Pauranic · पौराणिकDhyana shloka

Udyad-aditya Sankasham

The opening of the Anjaneya dhyanam — bright as the rising sun, learned in every branch of knowledge, granting fearlessness with both hands.

Anjaneya Dhyanam opening two shlokasedition

Hanuman ·

Sanskrit · संस्कृत

उद्यदादित्य संकाशं उदार भुज विक्रमम् । कन्दर्प कोटि लावण्यं सर्व विद्या विशारदम् ॥ श्री राम हृदयानंदं भक्त कल्प महीरुहम् । अभयं वरदं दोर्भ्यां कलये मारुतात्मजम् ॥

udyadāditya saṃkāśaṃ udāra bhuja vikramam । kandarpa koṭi lāvaṇyaṃ sarva vidyā viśāradam ॥ śrī rāma hṛdayānaṃdaṃ bhakta kalpa mahīruham । abhayaṃ varadaṃ dorbhyāṃ kalaye mārutātmajam ॥

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Meaning

Bright as the rising sun, generous in the valour of his arms, lovely as ten million Kandarpas, accomplished in every branch of learning; the joy of Rama's heart, a wish-fulfilling tree for his devotees, giving fearlessness and boons with both hands — I contemplate 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

Two shlokas in *anuṣṭubh*. The opening of a longer dhyana sequence, so it is rarely recited alone.

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 dhyanam that opens the Anjaneya sequence, before the Gayatri and the Trikala Vandanam. *Sarva-vidyā-viśāradam* — accomplished in every branch of learning — is the epithet worth pausing on, because it is the one least present in popular images of Hanuman. So is *kandarpa-koṭi-lāvaṇyam*, comparing him to ten million Kandarpas (Kama, the god of desire) for beauty. The verse describes a figure who is learned and beautiful before he is strong, which is closer to Valmiki's Sundarakanda envoy than to the modern wrestler-Hanuman of the *akhāṛā*.

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)

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

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