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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.94.20

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 about trustworthy appointments, military leadership, treatment of officers, and timely food and pay for troops

2.94.20

kaccin mukhyā mahatsv eva madhyameṣu ca madhyamāḥ
jaghanyāś ca jaghanyeṣu bhṛtyāḥ karmasu yojitāḥ

Are your servants set to their tasks by rank — the highest in high offices, the middling in middling ones, and the lowest in lowly ones?

Words: kaccin — is it that; mukhyā — the chief ones; mahatsv — in great (offices); eva — only; madhyameṣu — in middling (offices); ca — and; madhyamāḥ — the middling ones; jaghanyāś — the lowest; ca — and; jaghanyeṣu — in lowly (offices); bhṛtyāḥ — servants; karmasu — in tasks; yojitāḥ — engaged, employed

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.