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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.20.18

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: Viśvāmitra knows them all and can create others → Vasiṣṭha urges Daśaratha to put aside his doubts.

1.20.18

tāni cāstrāṇi vetty eṣa yathāvat kuśikātmajaḥ
apūrvāṇāṃ ca janane śakto bhūyaś ca dharmavit

This son of Kuśika knows those weapons duly, and this knower of dharma is furthermore able in the creating of new ones.

Words: tāni — those; cāstrāṇi — and the weapons; vetty — knows; eṣa — he; yathāvat — duly, correctly; kuśikātmajaḥ — the son of Kuśika; apūrvāṇāṃ — of unprecedented (weapons); ca — and; janane — in the creating, generating; śakto — able; bhūyaś — furthermore, moreover; ca — and; dharmavit — the knower of dharma

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. 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.