This, sire, is my opinion, this, O Raghava, is virtue. But you, having then renounced the kingdom, have laid the axe at the root* of righteousness. **Root, remarks, Rāmānuja, 'which is interest!'
मम चेदं मतं तात धर्मोऽयमिति राघव। धर्ममूलं त्वया छिन्नं राज्यमुत्सृजता तदा॥