Yuddha Kanda
युद्धकाण्डम्
The Book of War
Building the bridge to Lanka, the great war between Rama's army and Ravana's forces, the slaying of Kumbhakarna, Indrajit, and finally Ravana, Sita's Agni Pariksha, and the triumphant return to Ayodhya.
Yuddha Kanda (युद्धकाण्डम्, The Book of War) is Kanda 6 of 7 in Maharishi Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana, comprising 131 sargas and 5,693 shlokas. Building the bridge to Lanka, the great war between Rama's army and Ravana's forces, the slaying of Kumbhakarna, Indrajit, and finally Ravana, Sita's Agni Pariksha, and the triumphant return to Ayodhya.
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)
19 shlokas
25 shlokas
34 shlokas
124 shlokas
23 shlokas
18 shlokas
25 shlokas
24 shlokas
23 shlokas
29 shlokas
32 shlokas
40 shlokas
21 shlokas
22 shlokas
14 shlokas
27 shlokas
64 shlokas
38 shlokas
42 shlokas
36 shlokas
33 shlokas
87 shlokas
16 shlokas
45 shlokas
33 shlokas
48 shlokas
48 shlokas
44 shlokas
29 shlokas
35 shlokas
45 shlokas
44 shlokas
38 shlokas
28 shlokas
37 shlokas
22 shlokas
37 shlokas
19 shlokas
29 shlokas
30 shlokas
99 shlokas
47 shlokas
45 shlokas
39 shlokas
28 shlokas
50 shlokas
23 shlokas
37 shlokas
32 shlokas
65 shlokas
36 shlokas
38 shlokas
32 shlokas
38 shlokas
31 shlokas
39 shlokas
46 shlokas
60 shlokas
146 shlokas
97 shlokas
40 shlokas
23 shlokas
57 shlokas
36 shlokas
57 shlokas
34 shlokas
178 shlokas
23 shlokas
95 shlokas
66 shlokas
115 shlokas
17 shlokas
74 shlokas
76 shlokas
70 shlokas
93 shlokas
23 shlokas
20 shlokas
40 shlokas
42 shlokas
34 shlokas
27 shlokas
43 shlokas
10 shlokas
35 shlokas
34 shlokas
29 shlokas
36 shlokas
41 shlokas
53 shlokas
96 shlokas
27 shlokas
67 shlokas
38 shlokas
40 shlokas
43 shlokas
35 shlokas
37 shlokas
25 shlokas
50 shlokas
46 shlokas
48 shlokas
38 shlokas
31 shlokas
30 shlokas
26 shlokas
30 shlokas
35 shlokas
28 shlokas
38 shlokas
33 shlokas
24 shlokas
25 shlokas
125 shlokas
25 shlokas
53 shlokas
35 shlokas
24 shlokas
35 shlokas
32 shlokas
21 shlokas
38 shlokas
23 shlokas
29 shlokas
26 shlokas
56 shlokas
21 shlokas
45 shlokas
54 shlokas
61 shlokas
124 shlokas