qMonk literal translation — draft, pending review
You made yourself huge and dreadful, and you destroyed the demons.
Everything Ramchandra had to get done, you put straight.
Three forms in two verses — sūkṣma, bikaṭa, and now bhīma, vast and fearful. Changing shape is not a trick Hanumān performs at intervals; it is simply what he is like, and the poem is working through the sizes.
Bhīma is an adjective here, the ordinary Sanskrit word for terrible. It is also, as it happens, the name of the second Pāṇḍava, who is Vāyu's son as well — the Mahābhārata makes the two of them half-brothers and stages a meeting in the forest where Bhīma cannot lift an old monkey's tail out of his path. The Chalisa is not pointing at that. It is a good thing to know while reading the word.
The line that matters is the second one, and its verb is domestic. Sãvāranā means to arrange, to set right, to make presentable — what you do to a room, or to hair, or to a situation that has got out of hand. Not did Rāma's work, and not won it: put it in order. The largest form in the poem is introduced and then handed a tidying word, and the understatement is the whole effect.
What is something in your home that somebody quietly puts right, that nobody ever thanks them for?
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