Chapter 5 — Bala Kanda, Sarga 5

Valmiki Ramayana — Bala Kanda

Verse 5.19

तामग्निमद्भिर्गुणवद्भिरावृतां द्विजोत्तमैर्वेदषडङ्गपारगैः। सहस्रदैः सत्यरतैर्महात्मभि महर्षिकल्पैर्ऋषिभिश्च केवलैः॥

tāmagnimadbhirguṇavadbhirāvṛtāṃ dvijottamairvedaṣaḍaṅgapāragaiḥ| sahasradaiḥ satyaratairmahātmabhi maharṣikalpairṛṣibhiśca kevalaiḥ||

English Meaning

It abounded mostly in excellent Brāhmaṇas, lighting the sacrificial fire, and crowned with qualities, and versed in the Vedas and the Vedāngas, and giving away thousands, and ever abiding by truth, and high-souled, and resembling might ascetics.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)