Sundara Kanda
सुन्दरकाण्डम्
The Beautiful Book
Hanuman's mighty leap across the ocean to Lanka, his search through the city, finding Sita in the Ashoka garden, burning Lanka, and returning with news.
Sundara Kanda (सुन्दरकाण्डम्, The Beautiful Book) is Kanda 5 of 7 in Maharishi Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana, comprising 68 sargas and 2,772 shlokas. Hanuman's mighty leap across the ocean to Lanka, his search through the city, finding Sita in the Ashoka garden, burning Lanka, and returning with news.
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)
201 shlokas
58 shlokas
51 shlokas
29 shlokas
27 shlokas
42 shlokas
17 shlokas
7 shlokas
73 shlokas
54 shlokas
47 shlokas
25 shlokas
69 shlokas
52 shlokas
54 shlokas
32 shlokas
32 shlokas
32 shlokas
23 shlokas
36 shlokas
34 shlokas
46 shlokas
19 shlokas
48 shlokas
20 shlokas
51 shlokas
51 shlokas
19 shlokas
8 shlokas
44 shlokas
19 shlokas
14 shlokas
31 shlokas
41 shlokas
89 shlokas
47 shlokas
65 shlokas
73 shlokas
54 shlokas
25 shlokas
21 shlokas
43 shlokas
25 shlokas
20 shlokas
17 shlokas
39 shlokas
38 shlokas
61 shlokas
20 shlokas
19 shlokas
46 shlokas
26 shlokas
44 shlokas
50 shlokas
34 shlokas
34 shlokas
51 shlokas
166 shlokas
36 shlokas
6 shlokas
23 shlokas
39 shlokas
29 shlokas
39 shlokas
27 shlokas
15 shlokas
16 shlokas
29 shlokas