The Hanuman Chalisa (Hindi pronunciation literally Forty chaupais on
Hanuman) is a Hindu devotional hymn (stotra) addressed to Hanuman. It is
traditionally believed to have been authored by 16th-century poet
Tulsidas in the Awadhi language, and is his best known text apart from
the Ramcharitmanas. The word "chālīsā" is derived from "chālīs", which
means the number forty in Hindi, as the Hanuman Chalisa has 40 verses
(excluding the couplets at the beginning and at the end.
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