Baal Kaanda Tulasidasas humility and the glory of poetry describing Sri Rama's greatness - Chhands
Ramcharitmanas · Baal Kaanda Tulasidasas humility and the glory of poetry describing Sri Rama's greatness · Verse Chhands 1477
Sanskrit Original
मंगल करनि कलि मल हरनि तुलसी कथा रघुनाथ की।। गति कूर कबिता सरित की ज्यों सरित पावन पाथ की।। प्रभु सुजस संगति भनिति भलि होइहि सुजन मन भावनी।। भव अंग भूति मसान की सुमिरत सुहावनि पावनी।।
maṃgala karani kali mala harani tulasī kathā raghunātha kī.. gati kūra kabitā sarita kī jyōṃ sarita pāvana pātha kī.. prabhu sujasa saṃgati bhaniti bhali hōihi sujana mana bhāvanī.. bhava aṃga bhūti masāna kī sumirata suhāvani pāvanī..
The tale of the Lord of Raghus, O Tulasidasa, brings forth blessings and wipes away the impurities of the Kali age. The course of this stream of my poetry is tortuous like that of the holy Ganga. By its association with the auspicious glory of the Lord my composition will be blessed and will captivate the mind of the virtuous. On the person of Lord Siva, even the ashes of the cremation-ground appear charming and purify by their very thought.