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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.8.5

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 8: Story of the tapasvin’s sword. Sītā describes how guarding Indra’s weapon corrupted a peaceful ṛṣi and warns Rāma against violence without enmity

In the sequence: she identifies three faults arising from desire: falsehood, seeking another man's wife, and violence without enmity → she says the first two are foreign to Rāma's character, but fears that the third may follow from his promise to kill rākṣasas for the munis

3.8.5

tac ca sarvaṃ mahābāho śakyaṃ voḍhuṃ jitendriyaiḥ
tava vaśyendriyatvaṃ ca jānāmi śubhadarśana

All that, O mighty-armed one, can be mastered by those who have conquered their senses; and I know your mastery of the senses, O fair-visaged one.

Words: tac ca — and that; sarvaṃ — all; mahābāho — O mighty-armed one; śakyaṃ — possible, able; voḍhuṃ — to bear, to master; jitendriyaiḥ — by those who have conquered the senses; tava — your; vaśyendriyatvaṃ — mastery of the senses; ca — and; jānāmi — I know; śubhadarśana — O fair-visaged one

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.