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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.94.37

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: Rāma then asks whether the city and countryside are secure, farmers and herdsmen protected, water available, and grievances addressed

2.94.37

kaccic caityaśatair juṣṭaḥ suniviṣṭajanākulaḥ
devasthānaiḥ prapābhiś ca taḍāgaiś copaśobhitaḥ

Is the realm graced with hundreds of shrines, crowded with well-settled folk, and adorned with temples, water-halls, and tanks,

Words: kaccic — is it that; caityaśatair — with hundreds of shrines; juṣṭaḥ — graced, endowed; suniviṣṭajanākulaḥ — crowded with well-settled people; devasthānaiḥ — with temples; prapābhiś — with water-halls; ca — and; taḍāgaiś — with tanks, ponds; copaśobhitaḥ — and adorned

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.