qMonk literal translation — draft, pending review
You are full of learning. You are good all the way through. You are very quick at working things out.
And you cannot rest until Ram's work is done.
Vidyāvān — possessed of learning. The poem has now said this twice in seven verses, and it is not decoration. In Vālmīki's Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, the first thing Rāma says about Hanumān, before he has seen him do anything, is about how he speaks: nobody talks like that who has not studied grammar and the Veda properly. The Chalisa keeps that Hanumān rather than the one from the poster.
Cātura is resourcefulness rather than book-cleverness — the kind of intelligence that finds a way through, which is precisely the gift the crossing to Laṅkā will require. And ātura is a surprisingly severe word: it is used of someone ill, someone in distress, someone who cannot be comfortable. Applied to eagerness, it means the waiting itself hurts.
Read this verse next to the opening dohā, where Tulsīdās asked for three things: bala, budhi, bidyā. Verse 2 gave Hanumān the strength. Verse 1 gave him the knowledge. Here is the learning. The poet asked for exactly what he is about to spend forty verses describing in somebody else.
What is a job you cannot properly relax until it is finished?
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