Chapter 82 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 82

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 82.10

चरितब्रह्मचर्यस्य विद्यास्नातस्य धीमतः। धर्मे प्रयतमानस्य को राज्यं मद्विधो हरेत्॥

caritabrahmacaryasya vidyāsnātasya dhīmataḥ| dharme prayatamānasya ko rājyaṃ madvidho haret||

English Meaning

Who like myself ever deprives one that has led a Brahmacharya mode of life, that is endowed with understanding and performed his bath after having acquired learning, and that is always intent on righteousness, of one's kingdom?

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)