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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.3.26

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 3: Rāma’s abhiṣeka announced. Daśaratha orders preparations and counsels Rāma on self-restraint, ministers and the welfare of his subjects

In the sequence: Daśaratha tells him that he will become heir at the Puṣya conjunction → he advises him to remain humble, control desire and anger, maintain the confidence of his ministers and other parts of the state, and keep his subjects content

2.3.26

bhūyo vinayam āsthāya bhava nityaṃ jitendriyaḥ
kāmakrodhasamutthāni tyajethā vyasanāni ca

Cultivating humility still more, be ever master of your senses; and shun the vices that spring from desire and anger.

Words: bhūyo — still more, again; vinayam — humility, discipline; āsthāya — having taken up, resorting to; bhava — be; nityaṃ — ever, always; jitendriyaḥ — master of the senses; kāmakrodhasamutthāni — arising from desire and anger; tyajethā — you should abandon, shun; vyasanāni ca — and the vices, addictions

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.