Sarga-21
Reputation of the Ikshvakus as donors: 1.21.1-2
It was the sacred duty of the kings of the Ikshvaku race, not to send a supplicant away with his wish unfulfilled. Saubhari says in the Vishnupurana, “O king, I wish to marry your daughter. Give her to me. Do not shatter my love. Never do supplicants coming to the kings of the race of Kakustha with a request go disappointed. O Mandhatar, yours is the only glorious family with a vow, as it were, to fulfil the desires of the supplicants”.
Kalidasa, reiterates the same: “Let there be no new accusation that a supplicant asking for dakshina to be given to his guru went away to another donor from Raghu who could not fulfil his desire”.
Preceptor must advise the king swerving from the right path 1.21.3- 20
When out of affection for his son Dasaratha refuses to fulfil his promise, Vasishta, reatizes that Viswamitra’s fury would create havoc in the entire world so he intervenes. He explains to the king the principle of propriety with a desire to avert the destruction of everything including Dasaratha’s acts of charity.
‘Ministers should restrain the king’, states Kamandaka, ‘from doing an improper act’. ‘Ministers’, he continues, ‘who stop the king swerving from the right path are not just friends. They are his great gurus’.
Sarga-21
Reputation of the Ikshvakus as donors: 1.21.1-2
It was the sacred duty of the kings of the Ikshvaku race, not to send a supplicant away with his wish unfulfilled. Saubhari says in the Vishnupurana, “O king, I wish to marry your daughter. Give her to me. Do not shatter my love. Never do supplicants coming to the kings of the race of Kakustha with a request go disappointed. O Mandhatar, yours is the only glorious family with a vow, as it were, to fulfil the desires of the supplicants”.
Kalidasa, reiterates the same: “Let there be no new accusation that a supplicant asking for dakshina to be given to his guru went away to another donor from Raghu who could not fulfil his desire”.
Preceptor must advise the king swerving from the right path 1.21.3- 20
When out of affection for his son Dasaratha refuses to fulfil his promise, Vasishta, reatizes that Viswamitra’s fury would create havoc in the entire world so he intervenes. He explains to the king the principle of propriety with a desire to avert the destruction of everything including Dasaratha’s acts of charity.
‘Ministers should restrain the king’, states Kamandaka, ‘from doing an improper act’. ‘Ministers’, he continues, ‘who stop the king swerving from the right path are not just friends. They are his great gurus’.