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Valmiki Ramayana 2.23.7

यथा दैवम् अशौण्डीरम् शौण्डीरः क्षत्रिय ऋषभः ।किम् नाम कृपणम् दैवम् अशक्तम् अभिशम्सति ।पापयोस् तु कथम् नाम तयोह् शन्का न विद्यते॥

yathā daivam aśauṇḍīram śauṇḍīraḥ kṣatriya ṛṣabhaḥ |kim nāma kṛpaṇam daivam aśaktam abhiśamsati |pāpayos tu katham nāma tayoh śankā na vidyate ||

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

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.