संप्रत्यनाथो विषय इक्ष्वाकूणां महात्मनाम्। राम नाथमिहासाद्य बालान्तकरणं ध्रुवम्॥ राजदोषैविपद्यन्ते प्रजा ह्यविधिपालिताः। असद्धृत्ते हि नृपतावकाले म्रियते जनः॥ यद्वा पुरेष्वयुक्तानि जना जनपदेषु च। कुर्वते न च रक्षास्ति तदा कालकृतं भयम्॥
saṃpratyanātho viṣaya ikṣvākūṇāṃ mahātmanām| rāma nāthamihāsādya bālāntakaraṇaṃ dhruvam|| rājadoṣaivipadyante prajā hyavidhipālitāḥ| asaddhṛtte hi nṛpatāvakāle mriyate janaḥ|| yadvā pureṣvayuktāni janā janapadeṣu ca| kurvate na ca rakṣāsti tadā kālakṛtaṃ bhayam||
English Meaning
Having attained Rāma as its lord, the kingdom, of the high-souled Ikşvākus, has attained to the condition of one having no master, where during Rāma's regime the death of a boy has been brought about. For being impiously governed by a king, for his sin, the subjects meet with calamities. And a king following evil tracks and not governing the subjects righteously people meet with untimely death. Therefore, when a king does mot suppress the crimes committed by people either in cities, or provinces the fear, of untimely death, comes in.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)