Shloka 2.110.36
लोकसमुत्पत्ति-वर्णनम् तथा इक्ष्वाकुवंश-प्रशंसा (Cosmogony and Ikshvaku Genealogy as Counsel to Rama)
स राघवाणां कुलधर्ममात्मनः सनातनं नाद्य विहन्तुमर्हसि।प्रभूतरत्नामनुशाधि मेदिनीं प्रभूतराष्ट्रां पितृवन्महायशः।।।।
sa rāghavāṇāṃ kuladharmam ātmanaḥ sanātanaṃ nādya vihantum arhasi |
prabhūtaratnām anuśādhi medinīṃ prabhūtarāṣṭrāṃ pitṛvan mahāyaśaḥ ||
O illustrious Rama, you ought not today to abandon the eternal family law of the Rāghavas. Rule, like your father, this earth—rich in treasures and broad in realms.
O illustrious Rama, now it does not behove you to abandon the ancient family tradition of the Raghus. Like your father rule this vast kingdom with abundance of treasures.ityārṣē śrīmadrāmāyaṇē vālmīkīya ādikāvyē ayōdhyākāṇḍē daśōttaraśatatamassargaḥ৷৷Thus ends the hundredtenth sarga in Ayodhyakanda of the holy Ramayana, the first epic composed by sage Valmiki.
The verse frames kingship as inherited duty: preserving ancestral dharma and governing for the realm’s welfare.
Bharata presses Rama to accept sovereignty, appealing to ancient Raghu tradition and Daśaratha’s model of rule.
Fidelity to tradition (kuladharma) and the ideal of paternal, protective governance.