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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.94.45

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 the royal household, elephant forests, fort supplies, revenue, spending, and impartial justice → innocent people must not be convicted for money, nor guilty people released through bribery

2.94.45

āyas te vipulaḥ kaccit kaccid alpataro vyayaḥ
apātreṣu na te kaccit kośo gacchati rāghava

Is your income ample and your expenditure the smaller? Does your treasure not go, O Rāghava, to unworthy recipients?

Words: āyas — income; te — your; vipulaḥ — ample, large; kaccit — is it that; kaccid — is it that; alpataro — smaller; vyayaḥ — expenditure; apātreṣu — to the unworthy; na — not; te — your; kaccit — is it that; kośo — treasure, treasury; gacchati — goes; rāghava — O Rāghava

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.