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Valmiki Ramayana 3.41.7

अमात्यैः काम वृत्तो हि राजा कापथम् आश्रितः ।निग्राह्यः सर्वथा सद्भिः न निग्राह्यो निगृह्यसे॥

amātyaiḥ kāma vṛtto hi rājā kāpatham āśritaḥ |nigrāhyaḥ sarvathā sadbhiḥ na nigrāhyo nigṛhyase ||

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Kanda.sarga.shloka as numbered in DharmicData (source: svenkatreddy/Ramayana_Book). Numbers can differ from the Gita Press edition by a few verses.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Contains information from DharmicData (github.com/bhavykhatri/DharmicData), made available under the ODbL v1.0. Sanskrit text public domain; dataset ODbL v1.0.