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Valmiki Ramayana 3.9.3

त्रीणि एव व्यसनानि अत्र कामजानि भवन्ति उत ।मिथ्या वाक्यम् तु परमम् तस्मात् गुरुतरा उभौ॥

trīṇi eva vyasanāni atra kāmajāni bhavanti uta |mithyā vākyam tu paramam tasmāt gurutarā ubhau ||

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.