ശ്രീരാമ! രാമ! രാമ! ശ്രീരാമചന്ദ്ര! ജയ
ശ്രീരാമ! രാമ! രാമ! ശ്രീരാമഭദ്ര! ജയ
ശ്രീരാമ! രാമ! രാമ! സീതാഭിരാമ! ജയ
ശ്രീരാമ! രാമ! രാമ! ലോകാഭിരാമ! ജയ
ശ്രീരാമ! രാമ! രാമ! രാവണാന്തക! രാമ!
ശ്രീരാമ! മമ ഹൃദി രമതാം രാമ! രാമ!
ശ്രീരാഘവാത്മാരാമ! ശ്രീരാമ! രമാപതേ!
ശ്രീരാമ! രമണീയവിഗ്രഹ! നമോസ്തു തേ.
നാരായണായ നമോ നാരായണായ നമോ
നാരായണായ നമോ നാരായണായ നമഃ
ശ്രീരാമനാമം പാടി വന്ന പൈങ്കിളിപ്പെണ്ണേ!
ശ്രീരാമചരിതം നീ ചൊല്ലീടു മടിയാതെ.
ശാരികപ്പൈതൽ താനും വന്ദിച്ചു വന്ദ്യന്മാരെ
ശ്രീരാമസ്മൃതിയോടെ പറഞ്ഞു തുടങ്ങിനാൾ.
श्रीराम! राम! राम! श्रीरामचन्द्र! जय
श्रीराम! राम! राम! श्रीरामभद्र! जय
श्रीराम! राम! राम! सीताभिराम! जय
श्रीराम! राम! राम! लोकाभिराम! जय
श्रीराम! राम! राम! रावणान्तक! राम!
श्रीराम! मम हृदि रमतां राम! राम!
श्रीराघवात्माराम! श्रीराम! रमापते!
श्रीराम! रमणीयविग्रह! नमोस्तु ते.
नारायणाय नमो नारायणाय नमो
नारायणाय नमो नारायणाय नमः
श्रीरामनामं पाटि वन्न पैङ्किळिप्पॆण्णे!
श्रीरामचरितं नी चॊल्लीटु मटियातॆ.
शारिकप्पैतल् तानुं वन्दिच्चु वन्द्यन्मारॆ
श्रीरामस्मृतियोटॆ पऱञ्ञु तुटङ्ङिनाळ्.
śrīrāma! rāma! rāma! śrīrāmacandra! jaya
śrīrāma! rāma! rāma! śrīrāmabhadra! jaya
śrīrāma! rāma! rāma! sītābhirāma! jaya
śrīrāma! rāma! rāma! lōkābhirāma! jaya
śrīrāma! rāma! rāma! rāvaṇāntaka! rāma!
śrīrāma! mama hṛdi ramatāṁ rāma! rāma!
śrīrāghavātmārāma! śrīrāma! ramāpatē!
śrīrāma! ramaṇīyavigraha! namōstu tē.
nārāyaṇāya namō nārāyaṇāya namō
nārāyaṇāya namō nārāyaṇāya namaḥ
śrīrāmanāmaṁ pāṭi vanna paiṅkiḷippeṇṇē!
śrīrāmacaritaṁ nī collīṭu maṭiyāte.
śārikappaital tānuṁ vandiccu vandyanmāre
śrīrāmasmṛtiyōṭe paṟaññu tuṭaṅṅināḷ.
Meaning
1–10. Shri Rama, Rama, Rama! Shri Ramachandra, victory! Shri Rama, Rama, Rama! Shri Ramabhadra, victory! Shri Rama, Rama, Rama! Delight of Sita, victory! Shri Rama, Rama, Rama! Delight of the world, victory! Shri Rama, Rama, Rama! Slayer of Ravana, Rama! Shri Rama, may Rama, Rama delight in my heart! Shri Raghava, Atmarama, Shri Rama, Lord of Lakshmi! Shri Rama of lovely form, salutations to you. Salutations to Narayana, salutations to Narayana; salutations to Narayana, salutations to Narayana.
11–14. ‘O little parrot-maiden who came singing the name of Shri Rama, tell the story of Shri Rama without holding back.’ And the young parrot, bowing to all who are worthy of reverence, began to speak, with Shri Rama in her mind.
About this bhajan
Thunchath Ezhuthachan retold the Sanskrit Adhyatma Ramayana in Malayalam in the sixteenth century, and he did it through a parrot. A kili, a little parrot, is asked to sing, and the whole Ramayana is her song. Every Malayali home that keeps the Karkidakam custom opens the book at dusk beside the nilavilakku, the brass lamp, and begins with these lines; the month is called Ramayana Masam, and the reading is meant to finish by its last day. Children learn ‘Sri Rama Rama Rama’ by ear long before they can read the script. These are lines 1–14 of the Balakandam; the invocations to Ganapati, Sarasvati and the gurus follow.
Malayalam Wikisource, ‘അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണം കിളിപ്പാട്ട്/ബാലകാണ്ഡം’ (Thunchath Ezhuthachan), opening lines 1–14; punctuation regularised