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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.94.32
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 loyal supporters, capable envoys, and intelligence gathered through three unrecognized spies for each of eighteen enemy officials and fifteen of Bharata's own → he warns against underestimating defeated enemies who return, and against relying on teachers of materialist reasoning whom he considers misleading.
2.94.32
kaccin na lokāyatikān brāhmaṇāṃs tāta sevase
anartha kuśalā hy ete bālāḥ paṇḍitamāninaḥ
Do you not, dear one, resort to brāhmaṇas of the materialist school? For these are adept only at mischief — mere fools who fancy themselves learned.
Words: kaccin — is it that; na — not; lokāyatikān — materialists (followers of Lokāyata); brāhmaṇāṃs — brāhmaṇas; tāta — dear one; sevase — you resort to, serve; anartha kuśalā — adept at mischief; hy — for; ete — these; bālāḥ — childish, fools; paṇḍitamāninaḥ — fancying themselves learned
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.