The misters for the great soul from Ikshvaku kings of Emperor Dasharatha, are epitomised ones of their tactfulness, adroitness and are always obliged to undertake welfare activities of their king and the kingdom. [1-7-1]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v2
अष्टौ बभूवुर्वीरस्य तस्यामात्या यशस्विनः |
शुचयश्चानुरक्ताश्च राजकृत्येषु नित्यशः || १-७-२
Eight ministers are there for that valiant and glorious King Dasharatha, who are clean at heart and are involved in the works of the king and kingdom at all time. [1-7-2]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v3
धृष्टिर्जयन्तो विजयो सुराष्ट्रो राष्ट्रवर्धनः |
अकोपो धर्मपालश्च सुमंत्रश्चाष्टमोऽभवत् || १-७-३
Dhristi, Jayantha, Vijaya, Suraashtra, Raashtravardhana, Akopa, Dharmapaala, are seven, and Sumantra is the eighth one. [1-7-3]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v4
ऋत्विजौ द्वावभिमतौ तस्यास्तामृषिसत्तमौ |
वशिष्ठो वामदेवश्च मंत्रिणश्च तथापरे || १-७-४
Two venerable saints of eminence are religious ministers for they are authorities in Vedic rituals, namely Vashishta and Vamadeva, who are the acquiescent with religious matters, and apart from these two some more religious ministers are also there to King Dasharatha. [1-7-4]
Suyajna, Jabaali, Kaashyapa, Gautama, Maarkandeya, Deerghaayu, and then Kaatyayana are the scholarly Brahmans acting as religious ministers, and along with them there are also Brahma-sages who are always the ancestral ritual scholars for Dasharatha's family. [1-7-5, 6a]
All the ministers are well versed in scriptures, they shun bad deeds, skilful ones in their duties with their senses regulated. Those great souls are affluent, knowers of all sciences, firmly courageous, and they are distinguished and quiet-souls, and those ministers are true to their word. They are magnificent, patient and famed ones and they smile afore they converse. [1-7-6b, 8a]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v7
क्रोधात्कामार्थहेतोर्वा न ब्रूयुरनृतं वचः || १-७-८
तेषामविदितं किंचित्स्वेषु नास्ति परेषु वा |
क्रियमाणं कृतं वापि चारेणापि चिकीर्षितम् || १-७-९
They never speak untruthful words in anger or in greed or for monetary reasons either. There is nothing unknown to them, even a little, in their own country or in the others either, or about everything that is happening or has happened, or that is going to happen, for they know them through agents. [1-7-8b, 9]
They are efficient in administration and their friendships are well examined by the king, and those ministers impose punishment even on their own sons, if situation demands it. [1-7-10]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v9
कोशसंग्रहणे युक्ता बलस्य च परिग्रहे |
अहितं चापि पुरुषं न हिंस्युरविदूषकम् || १-७-११
In collections to their treasury and to militarise their armies they are dutiful, even an unfriendly person will not be tortured, if he were not really blameworthy. [1-7-11]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v10
वीराश्च नियतोत्साहा राजशास्त्रमनुष्ठिताः |
शुचीनां रक्षितारश्च नित्यं विषयवासिनाम् || १-७-१२
They are valiant ones with engineered enthusiasm, administrators of political science, clean persons and protectors of subjects of their kingdom at all times. [1-7-12]
They do not persecute Brahman-s and Kshatriya-s to fill-up the treasury, and high degree punishments will be given on assessing that person's, or the offender's strength and weakness. [1-7-13]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v12
शुचीनामेकबुद्धीनां सर्वेषां संप्रजानताम् |
नासीत्पुरे वा राष्ट्रे वा मृषावादी नरः क्वचित् || १-७-१४
All of those ministers are clean administrators of kingdom, and are in league with each other, as such there is none anywhere, either in capital or in country, a liar. [1-7-14]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v13
कश्चिन्न दुष्टस्तत्रासीत्परदाररतो नरः |
प्रशांतं सर्वमेवासीद्राष्ट्रं पुरवरं च तत् || १-७-१५
None with an evil-mind or with an interest in other man's wife is there, and thus on whole in the kingdom and also like that in the capital, there is an undisturbed society. [1-7-15]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v14
सुवाससः सुवेषाश्च ते च सर्वे शुचिव्रताः |
हितार्थं च नरेन्द्रस्य जाग्रतो नयचक्षुषा || १-७-१६
Well-dressed and well-decorated and they the ministers of King Dasharatha, observe decency in the interest of the king and also of the kingdom, with diligence and with a truthful-eye. [1-7-16]
They acquired good qualities from their mentors and they are renowned by their expertise, and even in foreign countries they are famous for their intellectual determinations in all affairs. [1-7-17]
Versatile and virtuous are they the ministers and there is none who discarded his virtuosity, and they are the determiners of truce or war, and by their nature they possess opulence. [1-7-18]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v17
मंत्रसंवरणे शक्ताः शक्ताः सूक्ष्मासु बुद्धिषु |
नीतिशास्त्रविशेषज्ञाः सततं प्रियवादिनः || १-७-१९
They are capable to keep up the confidentialities of strategies, and also capable to apply their mind even in micro-affairs, and they know moral science comprehensively, and above all, they are gentle articulators. [1-7-19]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v18
ईदृशैस्तैरमात्यैश्च राजा दशरथोऽनघः |
उपपन्नो गुणोपेतैरन्वशासद्वसुंधराम् || १-७-२०
Accompanied with such of those effectual and good-natured ministers the exalted king Dasharatha ruled the earth. [1-7-20]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v19
अवेक्षमाणश्चारेण प्रजा धर्मेण रक्षयन् |
प्रजानां पालनं कुर्वन्नधर्मं परिवर्जयन् || १-७-२१
विश्रुतस्त्रिषु लोकेषु वदान्यः सत्यसंगरः |
स तत्र पुरुषव्याघ्रः शशास पृथिवीमिमाम् || १-७-२२
He that most generous one among men, Dasharatha, while observing through spies, and to protect people righteously, and to give a good governance to them, he forsook unrighteousness and became a generous king avowed to truthfulness alone, and thus he that Dasharatha ruled the earth, which rulership is renowned in all the three worlds. [1-7-21,22]
Bala Kanda – Sarga 7 · v20
नाध्यगच्छद्विशिष्टं वा तुल्यं वा शत्रुमात्मनः |
मित्रवान्नतसामन्तः प्रतापहतकण्टकः |
स शशास जगद्राजा दिवं देवपतिर्यथा || १-७-२३
Emperor Dasharatha has not encountered either a superior or an equal in his kingship, and to him there are many friends, subdued are his provincial kings and eliminated is thorniness by his own valour. He thus ruled the world like Indra would in Heaven. [1-7-23]
In the company of those ministers, who are conducive to the strategies, interested in the king and subjects as well, skilful and efficient ones, he that King Dasharatha obtained brilliance, like the rising Sun along with resplendent sunrays. [1-7-24]
