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)