Chapter 100 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 100

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 100.31

कालातिक्रमणे ह्येव भक्तवेतनयो ताः। भर्तुरप्यतिकुप्यन्ति सोऽनर्थः सुमहान् कृतः॥

kālātikramaṇe hyeva bhaktavetanayo tāḥ| bharturapyatikupyanti so'narthaḥ sumahān kṛtaḥ||

English Meaning

If the proper time for granting provision and pay be passed, the servants get wroth with their master and tax him; and great is the evil that springs herefrom.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)