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.
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॥