Shloka 8
अयोध्यावर्णनम्
Description of Ayodhya under Daśaratha
कामी वा न कदर्यो वा नृशंस: पुरुष: क्वचित् ।द्रष्टुं शक्यमयोध्यायान्नाविद्वान्न च नास्तिक: ।।1.6.8।।
kāmī vā na kadaryo vā nṛśaṃsaḥ puruṣaḥ kvacit |
draṣṭuṃ śakyam ayodhyāyāṃ nāvidvān na ca nāstikaḥ ||1.6.8||
अयोध्या में कहीं भी कामासक्त, कंजूस या क्रूर पुरुष दिखाई नहीं देता था; न कोई अविद्वान था, न कोई नास्तिक।
The lustful, the miserly, the unscholarly and atheists were not to be seen anywhere in the city of Ayodhya.
FAQs
A dharmic community restrains destructive impulses (lust, greed, cruelty) and supports learning and faith in moral order—creating a culture where vice is socially absent or marginal.
The narrator idealizes Ayodhyā by listing moral failings that were not found there.
Self-restraint and moral education at a societal level—citizenship shaped by discipline rather than appetite.