Kishkindha Kanda
किष्किन्धाकाण्डम्
The Book of Kishkindha
Rama's alliance with Sugriva and Hanuman, the slaying of Vali, the great search for Sita across the four directions.
Kishkindha Kanda (किष्किन्धाकाण्डम्, The Book of Kishkindha) is Kanda 4 of 7 in Maharishi Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana, comprising 67 sargas and 2,445 shlokas. Rama's alliance with Sugriva and Hanuman, the slaying of Vali, the great search for Sita across the four directions.
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)
130 shlokas
29 shlokas
39 shlokas
35 shlokas
32 shlokas
27 shlokas
25 shlokas
46 shlokas
26 shlokas
35 shlokas
93 shlokas
42 shlokas
30 shlokas
22 shlokas
31 shlokas
38 shlokas
52 shlokas
68 shlokas
28 shlokas
25 shlokas
16 shlokas
31 shlokas
30 shlokas
44 shlokas
52 shlokas
41 shlokas
48 shlokas
66 shlokas
34 shlokas
85 shlokas
51 shlokas
22 shlokas
65 shlokas
19 shlokas
23 shlokas
20 shlokas
37 shlokas
34 shlokas
44 shlokas
70 shlokas
50 shlokas
55 shlokas
64 shlokas
17 shlokas
15 shlokas
24 shlokas
14 shlokas
23 shlokas
22 shlokas
41 shlokas
19 shlokas
19 shlokas
39 shlokas
22 shlokas
23 shlokas
17 shlokas
19 shlokas
36 shlokas
28 shlokas
21 shlokas
17 shlokas
15 shlokas
15 shlokas
24 shlokas
34 shlokas
37 shlokas
50 shlokas