Aranya Kanda
अरण्यकाण्डम्
The Book of the Forest
Life in the Dandaka forest, encounter with Surpanakha, the golden deer deception by Maricha, abduction of Sita by Ravana, and Jatayu's heroic sacrifice.
Aranya Kanda (अरण्यकाण्डम्, The Book of the Forest) is Kanda 3 of 7 in Maharishi Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana, comprising 75 sargas and 2,439 shlokas. Life in the Dandaka forest, encounter with Surpanakha, the golden deer deception by Maricha, abduction of Sita by Ravana, and Jatayu's heroic sacrifice.
Every shloka below is presented in its original Sanskrit — rendered in Devanagari and, where available, transliterated into Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, and Malayalam scripts — with word-by-word meanings and English translations. Progressive prose translations in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, and Malayalam are rolling out Kanda by Kanda.
Chapters (Sargas)
22 shlokas
26 shlokas
26 shlokas
32 shlokas
43 shlokas
26 shlokas
24 shlokas
20 shlokas
33 shlokas
23 shlokas
93 shlokas
37 shlokas
27 shlokas
35 shlokas
31 shlokas
43 shlokas
30 shlokas
26 shlokas
26 shlokas
25 shlokas
22 shlokas
26 shlokas
35 shlokas
37 shlokas
42 shlokas
38 shlokas
20 shlokas
33 shlokas
28 shlokas
41 shlokas
50 shlokas
25 shlokas
24 shlokas
27 shlokas
42 shlokas
24 shlokas
25 shlokas
33 shlokas
25 shlokas
27 shlokas
20 shlokas
35 shlokas
50 shlokas
27 shlokas
40 shlokas
37 shlokas
50 shlokas
24 shlokas
41 shlokas
27 shlokas
46 shlokas
44 shlokas
26 shlokas
30 shlokas
37 shlokas
36 shlokas
24 shlokas
19 shlokas
27 shlokas
38 shlokas
32 shlokas
21 shlokas
20 shlokas
75 shlokas
16 shlokas
19 shlokas
29 shlokas
38 shlokas
51 shlokas
18 shlokas
33 shlokas
27 shlokas
45 shlokas
35 shlokas
30 shlokas