Chapter 33 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 33

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 33.15

मूलं ह्येष मनुष्याणां धर्मसारो महाद्युतिः। पुष्पं फलं च पत्रं च शाखाश्चास्येतरे जनाः॥

mūlaṃ hyeṣa manuṣyāṇāṃ dharmasāro mahādyutiḥ| puṣpaṃ phalaṃ ca patraṃ ca śākhāścāsyetare janāḥ||

English Meaning

Surely this highly effulgent one with virtue for his chief good, is the root of humanity, and the latter represents its flowers, fruits, foliage, and boughs.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)