The library of Vālmīki

1. the Veda Vedic tradition 10 authority · 2 neutral 12 citations

   Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

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   12 citations

   Having made that resolve, the king, together with his company of preceptors, learned in the Vedas in the matter of the sacrifice, began to prepare to perform the rite.

2. Vālmīki 3 authority · 1 extended 4 citations

   Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

   kanda 1 · kanda 7

   4 citations

   "Go, the two of you, composed and attentive, and sing the complete Rāmāyaṇa poem with the greatest delight.

3. Manu 2 authority 2 citations

   Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

   kanda 2 · kanda 7

   2 citations

   'The punishment that is inflicted upon erring men, when it is administered lawfully and duly, leads the king to heaven.

4. Nārada 2 authority 2 citations

   Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

   kanda 1 · kanda 7

   2 citations

   Then adharma set down its second foot, and thereupon arose that age reckoned as the Dvāpara.

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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

Account of Rāma's youthful defeat of Mārīca at Viśvāmitra's sacrifice · Ancient verse sung by a bear in the presence of a tiger (on the non-transference of sin) · Ascetic power (tapas) as a source of omniscient knowledge · Atharvaśiras · Bharata's royal command as sovereign of the Ikṣvākus · Brahmā's boon establishing the condition of Indrajit's death · Brahmā's boon narrative · Brahmā's boon of invulnerability and the doctrine of the Brāhma weapon · Brahmā's boon of invulnerability to Rāvaṇa · Brahmā's boon of invulnerability to missiles · Brahmā's curse upon Kumbhakarṇa · Brahmā's prophecy of danger from humans · Brāhma weapon (boon of Brahmā) · Brāhmaṇas' prophecy concerning Sītā's forest-dwelling · Conduct and precedent of the former Ikṣvāku kings · Curse of Uśanas upon the Daṇḍaka forest · Custom of former royal seers regarding forest-dwelling (vānaprastha) · Customary law of interment for slain rākṣasas · Customary law of royal succession (primogeniture) · Cāraṇa-Siddha oracular pronouncement of Rāvaṇa's doom · Daśaratha's command (vow of fourteen-year exile) · Dhanurveda · Dharmaśāstra (treatises on dharma, artha, and kāma) · Dharmaśāstra convention of declaring lineage in full at marriage · Doctrine of the four expedients of policy (sāma, dāna, bheda, daṇḍa) · Doctrine of the four political means (upāyas: conciliation, gift, dissension, force) · Durvāsas' prophecy concerning the Ikṣvāku lineage · Eternal family dharma (kuladharma) of the Rāghavas · Gautama's curse-pronouncement upon Ahalyā · Gāthā of Gaya (verses on the etymology of putra and ancestral deliverance) · Hetu-śāstra / doctrine of the materialist logicians · Ikṣvāku custom of royal primogeniture · Ikṣvāku dynastic genealogy (vaṃśānucarita) · Indra's prophecy of Kabandha's release · Indra's victory over the Dānavas · Jyotiḥśāstra (science of astrology) · Jābāli's nāstika doctrine (denial of rebirth and ritual efficacy) · Kalpasūtra · Kṣatriya code (rāja-dharma) · Kṣatriya-dharma (duty of the warrior class) · Law of dharma protecting a chaste wife from fire · Law of hospitality (atithi-dharma) · Legend of Aṣṭāvakra ferrying a righteous brahmin across affliction · Legend of Bali's subjugation by Viṣṇu/Nārāyaṇa (Vāmana narrative) · Legend of Garuḍa's quest for the nectar of immortality · Legend of Indra's slaying of Vṛtra · Legend of King Alarka · Legend of King Śaibya and the hawk · Legend of Nahuṣa's consecration of Yayāti · Legend of Rāma Jāmadagnya (Paraśurāma) and Reṇukā · Legend of Surabhī and her two sons · Legend of Suvarcalā and the sun · Legend of Sāvitrī (and the exemplar Rohiṇī) · Legend of Sāvitrī and Satyavat · Legend of Viśvāmitra's ten years with Ghṛtācī · Legend of Viṣṇu binding Bali (Vāmana narrative) · Legend of Viṣṇu slaying Hayagrīva and Pañcajana · Legend of Viṣṇu slaying Namuci, Vṛtra, Bali, Naraka, and Śambara · Legend of Viṣṇu's Trivikrama · Legend of Vātāpi and Agastya · Legend of the Sun's boon to Mount Meru · Legend of the Sāgaras and King Sagara · Legend of the sage Kaśyapa's filial service · Legend of the sage Kaṇḍu · Legend of the two divine bows of Śiva and Viṣṇu · Legend of Śatakratu (Indra) and Puloman/Śacī · Maxim on the self-preservation of the weak · Maxim that dharma is the source of wealth, happiness, and all attainment · Myth of Rudra's fury at Dakṣa's sacrifice · Myth of Viṣṇu's three strides (Trivikrama) · Niśākara's prophecy of Rāma and Sītā · Nīti Śāstra (the science of statecraft and royal policy) · Oral genealogical tradition of the Ikṣvāku dynasty · Pitāmaha's decree on Rāma's allotted lifespan · Popular saying on joy after long separation · Popular saying on reunion after long absence · Purāṇic account of Indra's consecration by the Vasus · Purāṇic lore of the gods (three strides of Viṣṇu, churning of the nectar, battles of gods and asuras) · Ritual injunction texts ('sacrifice, give, consecrate, perform austerities, renounce') · Rudra's boon of the trident to Madhu · Rājadharma (the dharma/duty of kings) · Rājasūya and Aśvamedha (Vedic sacrificial rites) · Sanatkumāra's account of the birth of sons to Daśaratha · Saṃpāti's report of Sītā's location · Scripture on a wife's union with her husband in the afterlife · Scriptures of dharma (śāstras/Vedic tradition) · Statecraft maxim on protecting the root of an undertaking · Sthūlaśiras's curse-pronouncement · Sāmaveda / seasonal Vedic study (svādhyāya) · Teaching on the king's share of ascetics' merit in exchange for protection (rājadharma doctrine) · Teaching on the three teachers (guru, father, mother) · Teaching on the three vices born of desire (false speech, adultery, unprovoked violence) · Teaching on wealth attributed to Śukra (arthaśāstra tradition) · Teaching that compassion is the highest dharma (dayā paramo dharmaḥ) · Teaching that truth is the highest dharma · The War of the Gods and Asuras (devāsura saṃgrāma) · The battle of Vṛtra and Vāsava (Indra-Vṛtra myth) · The myth of Tryambaka and Andhaka · The precedent of King Sagara's banishment of his son Asamañja · The śakti weapon given by Svayambhū · The śāstras (treatises on statecraft and ethics) · Traditional cosmogony and Ikṣvāku dynastic genealogy · Traditional law/custom concerning envoys (dūta-dharma) · Traditional report on the eternal youthful age of the gods · Traditional teaching that sages and gods hold truth supreme · Trijaṭā's dream-vision · Vasiṣṭha's curse upon King Saudāsa (Mitrasaha) · Veda (Vedic hymns) · Veda (Vedic mantras) · Veda and Smṛti teachings on wifely dharma · Vedas (including the Yajurveda and knowledge of the Brahmā-weapon) · Vedic fire-oblation ritual · Vedic recitation · Vedic rite of weapon consecration · Vedic ritual injunctions (Veda / Vedic rites) · Vedic sacrificial convention on non-reuse of oblation materials · Vedic sacrificial purity doctrine (caṇḍāla exclusion from a consecrated altar) · Vedic sacrificial rites (Pauṇḍarīka, Aśvamedha, Vājapeya) · Vedic tradition on the origin of the four varṇas · Verse on the ingrate (kṛtaghna) sung by Brahmā · Vibhīṣaṇa's counsel to Rāvaṇa · Videha (Mithilā) royal genealogy · Vājapeya sacrifice · Vālin's account of Rāvaṇa's rākṣasa forces · a lost Vedic text (simile of recovery) · accounts of Mitra's and Soma's Rājasūya sacrifices · counsel of Uśanā to the lord of the Asuras · customary law of the rākṣasas · declaration identifying the arrow as Viṣṇu's weapon · dharmaśāstra teaching on the fate of a host who fails to honor a guest · doctrine identifying Rāma as an incarnation of Viṣṇu · doctrine of the eternal decree (daiva) · doctrine of the husband as visible deity (pati-devatā) · doctrine of the six expedients (ṣāḍguṇya) · eternal duty taught by scripture for the twice-born · genealogy of the Prajāpatis (Pulastya's lineage) · identification of Kapila with Vāsudeva · itihāsa of Indra's slaying of a sage and his subsequent horse-sacrifice · itihāsa of King Ila · itihāsa of Vṛtra's slaying and Indra's purification · kṣatriya rule of warfare (sparing non-combatants) · legend of Purandara slaying Namuci · legend of Viṣṇu slaying Bali · legend of the amṛta churning and the herb-mountains · legend of the virtuous ancestor-kings · legend of the war between the gods and asuras · nīti / rājadharma (the science of polity and kingship) · prophecy of Rāma's long life · prophecy of the gods concerning Rāvaṇa's doom · prophecy of the great seers (Śabarī's teachers) concerning Rāma's arrival · prophetic warning of Vibhīṣaṇa · proverbial saying on sons resembling their father · proverbial saying on untimely death · proverbial verses said to be sung by elephants · ritual injunction and prescribed rule (vidhi-dṛṣṭa karma) · rājanīti / the traditional teaching on kingship and statecraft · rājyābhiṣeka consecration rite prescribed by the śāstras · science of bodily marks (physiognomy / sāmudrika lore) · science of statecraft (nīti śāstra) on peace and war · teaching on the necessity of dāna for heavenly sustenance · teaching that Pitāmaha created the two cosmic sides of Dharma and Adharma · teachings of the ancestral royal sages on forest life · teachings of the seers on renunciation · teachings of the wise on righteous conduct · the Grandfather's decree of long life · the Veda (with its six ancillaries) · the Veda(s) · the Vedas (invoked via Oṃkāra and Vaṣaṭkāra) · the Vedic morning prayer (sandhyā recitation) · the account of the rākṣasas' descent from Pulastya · the ancient account of the dove who sheltered its enemy · the code of the warrior (kṣatriya law of combat) · the curse pronounced by Viśravas upon Daśagrīva · the dharmaśāstra rule on five-clawed animals permitted as food · the dharmic maxim of reciprocating a favor ('the eternal law') · the doctrine of karma (the fruit of action) · the doctrine of rājadharma, the eternal duty of kingship · the doctrine that kings are gods in human form · the fourfold expedients of policy (conciliation, gifts, sowing division, and force) · the history (itihāsa) of Kauśika's (Viśvāmitra's) lineage · the legend of Puṣpaka's divine origin · the legend of Viṣṇu slaying the wife of Bhṛgu · the legend of Śakra slaying Mantharā, daughter of Virocana · the precedent of King Māndhātṛ · the precedent of Reṇukā's reunion with Bhārgava (Jamadagni) · the science of grammar (vyākaraṇa) · the teaching on the fruits of a broken vow · the traditional law permitting kings to hunt animals · the twice-born's teaching on rites for the dead and the soul's passage to heaven · the two hymns to Indra and Upendra · the verses of Kaṇḍu on protecting a suppliant · the vrata of Rudra (the eight-hundred-year austerity) · the word of Vasiṣṭha as family priest · the śāstras (ritual injunctions) · tradition of bodily omens (śakuna) · traditional teaching on the three kinds of men and of counsel (nīti/rāja-dharma doctrine) · treatises on kingship (rājanīti/daṇḍanīti concerning the treatment of envoys) · Āvartanī (recollective spell) · Śrauta sacrificial rites (Māheśvara sacrifice; Agniṣṭoma, Aśvamedha, Rājasūya, Gomedha, and Vaiṣṇava sacrifices) · Śāstras (treatises on dream-omens) · Śāstras and the teachings of dharma · śāstras (treatises on polity and counsel) · śāstras (treatises on statecraft, revenue, and the practical arts) · śāstric/scriptural authority attesting Hanūmān's power

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1. Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 3 authority · 1 extended 4 citations · 14 passages

   kanda 1 4 passages anchored here · kanda 7 10 passages anchored here

   The passage explicitly cites the Rāmāyaṇa itself as a source of religious merit equal to the Vedas, invoking it as scriptural authority.

   Whoever recites this story of Rāma — which is pure, destroys sin, meritorious, and equal to the Vedas — is released from all sins.