🪷 Rāmcharitamānas · Bāla-Kāṇḍa · Unit 261

The Book of Childhood · Numbered unit 261 of 361

चौपाई

देखी बिपुल बिकल बैदेही। निमिष बिहात कलप सम तेही।। 
 तृषित बारि बिनु जो तनु त्यागा। मुएँ करइ का सुधा तड़ागा।।
 का बरषा सब कृषी सुखानें। समय चुकें पुनि का पछितानें।। 
 अस जियँ जानि जानकी देखी। प्रभु पुलके लखि प्रीति बिसेषी।।
 गुरहि प्रनामु मनहि मन कीन्हा। अति लाघवँ उठाइ धनु लीन्हा।। 
 दमकेउ दामिनि जिमि जब लयऊ। पुनि नभ धनु मंडल सम भयऊ।।
 लेत चढ़ावत खैंचत गाढ़ें। काहुँ न लखा देख सबु ठाढ़ें।। 
 तेहि छन राम मध्य धनु तोरा। भरे भुवन धुनि घोर कठोरा।।

— Rāmcharitamānas Bāla-Kāṇḍa numbered unit 261 · Goswāmi Tulsidās · Awadhi-Hindi Devanāgarī

Place in the Mānas

Numbered unit 261 of 361 in Bāla-Kāṇḍa (Kāṇḍa 1 of 7)
Contained verse types: चौपाई
Kāṇḍa theme: Maṅgalācaraṇa (the auspicious opening · Gaṇeśa-Sarasvatī-Śiva-Pārvatī-Hari-Hara invocations) · Rāma's līlā in childhood · Viśvāmitra-yajña-protection · Sītā-svayaṁvara at Mithilā · the four brothers' weddings

Continue the Pāṭha

Browse the Bāla-Kāṇḍa unit index and maṅgalācaraṇa, return to the seven-Kāṇḍa Mānas, or read the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Sanskrit companion.

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APA: Goswāmi Tulsidās. (n.d.). Śrī Rāmcharitamānas Bāla-Kāṇḍa numbered unit 261. Vidhyāmitra. Retrieved 2026-08-07, from https://vidhyamitra.com/ramcharitamanas/bala-kand/261

Chicago: Goswāmi Tulsidās. "Śrī Rāmcharitamānas Bāla-Kāṇḍa numbered unit 261." Vidhyāmitra. Accessed 2026-08-07. https://vidhyamitra.com/ramcharitamanas/bala-kand/261.

MLA: Goswāmi Tulsidās. "Śrī Rāmcharitamānas Bāla-Kāṇḍa numbered unit 261." Vidhyāmitra, 2026, https://vidhyamitra.com/ramcharitamanas/bala-kand/261.

Text address: https://vidhyamitra.com/ramcharitamanas/bala-kand/261 · numbered unit from the pinned IIT Kanpur-derived witness released under the Unlicense.

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