Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 75, Shloka 54
अयोध्याकाण्डे पञ्चसप्ततितमः सर्गः
Sarga 75: Bharata and Kausalya—Reproach, Oaths, and Reconciliation
विप्रलुप्तप्रजातस्य दुष्कृतं ब्राह्मणस्य यत्।तदेव प्रतिपद्येत यस्यार्योऽनुमते गतः।।।।
vipralupta-prajātasya duṣkṛtaṃ brāhmaṇasya yat | tad eva pratipadyeta yasya āryo 'numate gataḥ ||
May he—by whose sanction my noble brother was exiled—meet with that very demerit which belongs to a brahmin who, having lost his lineage, commits grievous wrongdoing.
May the one who counselled the exile of my esteemed brother acquire the same sin like that of a low-bred brahmin who commits an irreversible sin acquires!
FAQs
Higher social and spiritual responsibility intensifies moral accountability; grave misconduct—especially for those expected to embody dharma—is treated as especially blameworthy.
Bharata invokes the paradigm of a brahmin’s severe transgression to express how weighty the approval of Rama’s exile is in moral terms.
Bharata’s sense of proportional justice: wrongdoing should be assessed against dharmic standards and the harm done to rightful order.