Chapter 11 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 11

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 11.23

मन्त्रिणश्च यथामुख्या निश्चितार्थेषु पण्डिताः। अमात्याश्च गुणोपेताः सर्वज्ञा बुद्धिदर्शनाः॥ समीयुस्तत्र शतशः शूराश्च बहवस्तथा। सभायां हेमवर्णायां सर्वार्थस्य सुखाय वै॥

mantriṇaśca yathāmukhyā niścitārtheṣu paṇḍitāḥ| amātyāśca guṇopetāḥ sarvajñā buddhidarśanāḥ|| samīyustatra śataśaḥ śūrāśca bahavastathā| sabhāyāṃ hemavarṇāyāṃ sarvārthasya sukhāya vai||

English Meaning

There came also the learned and competent to arrive at infallible decisions, and they sat them down in order of merit. And there also came courtiers endowed with virtues, versed in every thing, and having intelligence for their eye-sight, and innumerable heroes by hundreds also (arrived) at that court for ascertaining the course the would prove beneficial.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)