Shrisitaramakelikaumudi

श्रीसीतारामकेलिकौमुदी
Cover page of Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudī, first edition
AuthorJagadguru Rambhadracharya
Original titleŚrīsītārāmakelikaumudī
LanguageHindi
GenreRītikāvya (Procedural Poetry)
PublisherJagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University
Publication date
August 16, 2008
Publication placeIndia
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages224 pp (first edition)

Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudī (Hindi: श्रीसीतारामकेलिकौमुदी) (2008), literally The moonlight (elucidation) for the [childhood] pastimes of Sītā and Rāma, is a minor poem in the Braja dialect of Hindi (with some verses in Maithili) belonging to the Rītikāvya genre. It was composed by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya (1950–) in the years 2007 and 2008.[1] The work is set in the backdrop of the Bālakāṇḍa of Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa and Tulasīdāsa's Rāmacaritamānasa, and is an assortment of verses describing the activities, pastimes and major events during the childhood of Sītā and Rāma. Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudī consists of 324 verses divided in three parts of 108 verses each. The verses are composed in seven Prakrit metres, namely Amātrika, Kavitta, Gīta, Ghanākṣarī, Caupaiyā, Drumila, and Mattagajendra.

A copy of the epic with a Hindi commentary has been published by the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, Chitrakuta, Uttar Pradesh. The book was released on October 30, 2008.

  1. ^ Rambhadracharya 2008, pp. kaṅa.