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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.94.16

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 94: Rāma questions Bharata’s governance. He asks after the family, advisers, spies, troop provisions, water, revenue and impartial justice, still unaware of Daśaratha’s death

In the sequence: he asks whether Bharata consults capable ministers, keeps counsel confidential, makes decisions promptly, and avoids both solitary judgment and overlarge councils

2.94.16

kaccin na tarkair yuktvā vā ye cāpy aparikīrtitāḥ
tvayā vā tava vāmātyair budhyate tāta mantritam

Is your resolved counsel never found out by others through mere conjecture, nor through matters left unproclaimed by you or by your ministers, dear one?

Words: kaccin — is it that; na — not; tarkair — by conjectures; yuktvā — having applied; vā — or; ye — which (matters); cāpy — and even; aparikīrtitāḥ — unproclaimed; tvayā — by you; vā — or; tava — your; vāmātyair — or by ministers; budhyate — is discerned; tāta — dear one; mantritam — the counsel

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.