Chapter 6 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 6

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 6.3

अभिगम्य च धर्मज्ञा रामं धर्मभृतां वरम्। ऊचुः परमधर्मज्ञमृषिसङ्घाः समागताः॥

abhigamya ca dharmajñā rāmaṃ dharmabhṛtāṃ varam| ūcuḥ paramadharmajñamṛṣisaṅghāḥ samāgatāḥ||

English Meaning

And coming before Rāma, the foremost of those practising righteousness, those sages conversant with morality, met in a body, said to that pre-eminently virtuous one,

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)