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सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः। सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद् दुःखभाग्भवेत्॥
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॥ शुभम् ॥

All texts›Valmiki Ramayana›Kanda.Sarga 1.56

Valmiki Ramayana 1.56.4

क्व च ते क्षत्रिय बलम् क्व च ब्रह्म बलम् महत् ।पश्य ब्रह्म बलम् दिव्यम् मम क्षत्रिय पांसन॥

kva ca te kṣatriya balam kva ca brahma balam mahat |paśya brahma balam divyam mama kṣatriya pāṃsana ||

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Edition: Kanda.sarga.shloka as numbered in DharmicData (source: svenkatreddy/Ramayana_Book). Numbers can differ from the Gita Press edition by a few verses.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Contains information from DharmicData (github.com/bhavykhatri/DharmicData), made available under the ODbL v1.0. Sanskrit text public domain; dataset ODbL v1.0.

Valmiki Ramayana 1.56.4 · Vidya