Chapter 4 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 4

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 4.22

एवं ब्रुवाणं सौमित्रिं करुणं साश्रुपातनम्। हनूमान् प्रत्युवाचेदं वाक्यं वाक्यविशारदः॥ ईदृशा बुद्धिसम्पन्ना जितक्रोधा जितेन्द्रियाः। द्रष्टव्या वानरेन्द्रेण दिष्ट्या दर्शनमागताः॥

evaṃ bruvāṇaṃ saumitriṃ karuṇaṃ sāśrupātanam| hanūmān pratyuvācedaṃ vākyaṃ vākyaviśāradaḥ|| īdṛśā buddhisampannā jitakrodhā jitendriyāḥ| draṣṭavyā vānarendreṇa diṣṭyā darśanamāgatāḥ||

English Meaning

When Sumitrā's son shedding tears had spoken thus, that one skilled in speech, Hanumān, answered in these words, 'Persons of such a stamp, endued with understanding, of controlled anger and subdued senses, should be seen by the master of monkeys, and such come within one's ken through blessed luck.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)