qMonk literal translation — draft, pending review
You are Ram's messenger, and you are the house that strength beyond all measuring lives in.
And these are your names: Anjani's son, and the son of the wind.
Dūta is an errand-runner — the one who carries the message and brings the answer back. It is the plainest possible job description, and in the Rāmāyaṇa it is exactly what Hanumān is doing when he does the greatest thing he does: crossing the sea to find out whether Sītā is alive.
Atulita is built on tulā, the balance-scale. Not "very strong", which is a comparison; atulita is the refusal of the comparison — there is nothing to set on the other pan. And then dhāmā, a dwelling, an abode. The line does not say he has great strength. It says he is the address where it lives, which is a different claim about where power comes from.
Then the names, and there are two of them in one line. Añjani-putra: Añjanā is his mother. Pavana-suta: Pavana, the wind, is his father — which is why the leap over the ocean is not a stunt in the story but an inheritance. The poem will add two more parents four verses later and feel no need to reconcile them.
If someone had to name you after one of the people who raised you, which one would it be, and why?
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