Chapter 12 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 12

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 12.28

सत्यं दानं तपस्त्यागो मित्रता शौचमार्जवम्। विद्या च गुरुशुश्रूषा ध्रुवाण्येतानि राघवे॥

satyaṃ dānaṃ tapastyāgo mitratā śaucamārjavam| vidyā ca guruśuśrūṣā dhruvāṇyetāni rāghave||

English Meaning

For certain, in Rāghava are truth and charity, and asceticism, and self renunciation, and friendship, and purity, and sincerity, and learning, and the disposition to tend his superiors.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)