Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 100, Shloka 25
शततमः सर्गः — Rāma Questions Bharata on Rājadharma
Governance, Counsel, and Public Welfare
कच्चिन्मुख्या महात्स्वेव मध्यमेषु च मध्यमाः।जघन्याश्च जघन्येषु भृत्याः कर्मसु योजिताः।।।।
kaccin mukhyā mahatsv eva madhyameṣu ca madhyamāḥ | jaghanyāś ca jaghanyeṣu bhṛtyāḥ karmasu yojitāḥ ||
ನೀನು ಭೃತ್ಯರನ್ನು ಕಾರ್ಯಾನುಸಾರ ಯೋಗ್ಯವಾಗಿ ನಿಯೋಜಿಸಿದ್ದೀಯೆಂದು ಆಶಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ: ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠರನ್ನು ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ಮಧ್ಯಮರನ್ನು ಮಧ್ಯಮ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ಮತ್ತು ಕನಿಷ್ಠರನ್ನು ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ಕೆಲಸಗಳಲ್ಲಿ.
I hope you have employed highly competent servants for important tasks, mediocre servants in mediocre tasks and low people in inferior tasks.
FAQs
Dharma in administration is fairness and fitness-for-role: assigning responsibilities according to capability prevents injustice, waste, and harm to the public.
Rāma questions Bharata about practical governance—whether he matches personnel to tasks in a rational hierarchy.
Organizational discernment and justice: rewarding competence with responsibility while safeguarding critical tasks from unfit hands.