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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.20.11
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 20: Vasiṣṭha’s intervention: The promise and Viśvāmitra’s powers. Viśvāmitra threatens to leave, Vasiṣṭha urges Daśaratha to honour his promise and assures him of the ṛṣi’s power to protect Rāma
In the sequence: he describes Viśvāmitra's unmatched wisdom, austerity, and mastery of weapons
1.20.11
eṣo 'strān vividhān vetti trailokye sacarācare
nainam anyaḥ pumān vetti na ca vetsyanti ke cana
He knows the various weapons that exist in the three worlds with all that moves and moves not; no other man knows them as he does, nor will any ever know them.
Words: eṣo — he; 'strān — the weapons; vividhān — various, of many kinds; vetti — knows; trailokye — in the three worlds; sacarācare — with all that moves and moves not; nainam — not him (them); anyaḥ — another; pumān — man; vetti — knows; na — not; ca — and; vetsyanti — will know; ke — who (any); cana — at all (indef.)
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.