यथा चारोपितो वृक्षो जातश्चान्तनिवेशने। महानपि दुरारोहो महास्कन्धः प्रशाखवान्॥ शीर्येत पुष्पितो भूत्वा न फलानि प्रदर्शयन्। तस्य नानुभवेदर्थं यस्य हेतोः स रोपितः॥ एषोपमा महाबाहो त्वमर्थं वेत्तुमर्हसि। यद्यस्मान्मनुजेन्द्र त्वं भर्ता भृत्यान्न शाधि हि॥
yathā cāropito vṛkṣo jātaścāntaniveśane| mahānapi durāroho mahāskandhaḥ praśākhavān|| śīryeta puṣpito bhūtvā na phalāni pradarśayan| tasya nānubhavedarthaṃ yasya hetoḥ sa ropitaḥ|| eṣopamā mahābāho tvamarthaṃ vettumarhasi| yadyasmānmanujendra tvaṃ bhartā bhṛtyānna śādhi hi||
English Meaning
If a tree, planted in the inner apartment of a house, growing huge with a big trunk and many branches, is dried up as soon it blossoms without bearing fruits, his object for whom it is planted, becomes fruitless? And this simili, O you of long arms, shall prove good in you, if did you not, our master, govern us, O lord of men, who are your servants.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)