Hanuman
Buddhir Balam
बुद्धिर्बलं यशो धैर्यं निर्भयत्वमरोगता । अजाड्यं वाक्पटुत्वं च हनुमत्स्मरणाद्भवेत् ॥
Simple reading
Bud-dhir ba-lam ya-sho dhair-yam nir-bha-yat-vam a-ro-ga-taa, a-jaad-yam vaak pa-tut-vam cha ha-nu-mat sma-ra-naad bha-vet
Buddhir balaṁ yaśo dhairyaṁ nirbhayatvam arogatā, ajāḍyaṁ vāk-paṭutvaṁ ca hanumat-smaraṇād bhavet
About this mantra
A single Sanskrit couplet that lists eight gifts of remembering Hanuman, from intelligence to eloquence. It is short enough to learn in a day and to say in one breath.
Meaning
Intelligence, strength, honour, courage, fearlessness, health, freedom from dullness, and skill in speech: all these come from remembering Hanuman. The list is a curriculum: the first gifts build a person, the rest keep one. Smaranat is the entire fee: mere remembering. This is the verse parents plant in children before examinations and journeys.
Learn it by heart
Say the first line until it comes without reading, then add the next line and say both, until the whole mantra comes on its own.
Line 1 of 2
बुद्धिर्बलं यशो धैर्यं निर्भयत्वमरोगता ।
Buddhir balaṁ yaśo dhairyaṁ nirbhayatvam arogatā, ajāḍyaṁ vāk-paṭutvaṁ ca hanumat-smaraṇād bhavet
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Aim for eleven before the next line. Move on when the line comes without reading.
Progress stays on this device.
When to recite it
The exam-season verse, recited by students each morning, and before results, competitions, and interviews.
Word by word
- बुद्धिःbuddhiḥ
- intelligence
- बलंbalaṁ
- strength
- यशःyaśaḥ
- honour, renown
- धैर्यंdhairyaṁ
- courage, steadiness
- निर्भयत्वम्nirbhayatvam
- fearlessness
- अरोगताarogatā
- health
- अजाड्यंajāḍyaṁ
- freedom from dullness
- वाक्पटुत्वंvāk-paṭutvaṁ
- eloquence
- हनुमत्स्मरणाद्भवेत्hanumat-smaraṇād bhavet
- arise from remembering Hanuman
Source: Traditional Hanumat-smaraṇa verse; source text uncertain (not part of the Rāma Rakṣā Stotra)