Chapter 18 — Bala Kanda, Sarga 18

Valmiki Ramayana — Bala Kanda

Verse 18.20

ते यदा ज्ञानसम्पन्नाः सर्वे समुतदिता गुणैः॥ ह्रीमन्तः कीर्तिमन्तश्च सर्वज्ञा दीर्घदर्शिनः। तेषामेवंप्रभावाणां सर्वेषां दीप्ततेजसाम्॥ पिता दशरथो हृष्टो ब्रह्मा लोकाधिपो यथा।

te yadā jñānasampannāḥ sarve samutaditā guṇaiḥ|| hrīmantaḥ kīrtimantaśca sarvajñā dīrghadarśinaḥ| teṣāmevaṃprabhāvāṇāṃ sarveṣāṃ dīptatejasām|| pitā daśaratho hṛṣṭo brahmā lokādhipo yathā|

English Meaning

And when they came to be furnished with knowledge, and crowned with virtues, and endowed with bashfulness and fame, and to attain wisdom in everything, and to be farsighted, Dasaratha, the father of such powerful and flamingly effulgent sons, became delighted even like that lord of worlds-Brahmā.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)