Self-control has for its elements eighteen virtues, the non-observance through laziness of acts prescribed in the Vedas, untruthfulness, malice, desire, wealth, love of pleasure, anger, grief, thirst, avarice, deceitfulness, delight at the pain of others, envy, repentance, aversion from virtues and noble acts, forgetfulness, speaking ill of others and well or self-he who is freed from these vices is said to possess selfcontrol by good people.
दमो ह्यष्टादशगुणः प्रतिकूलं कृताकृते। अनृतं चाभ्यसूया च कामार्थौ च तथा स्पृहा।॥ क्रोधः शोकस्तथा तृष्णा लोभः पैशुन्यमेव च। मत्सरच विहिंसा च परितापस्तथाऽरतिः॥ अपस्मारश्चातिवादस्तथा सम्भावनाऽऽत्मनि। एतैर्विमुक्तो दोषैर्यः स दान्तः सद्भिरुच्यते॥