Shloka 6
मारीचस्य रावणं प्रति नीत्युपदेशः
Maricha’s Counsel on Kingship and Ruin to Ravana
वध्याः खलु न हन्यन्ते सचिवास्तव रावण।ये त्वामुत्पथमारूढं न निगृह्णन्ति सर्वशः।।।।
vadhyāḥ khalu na hanyante sacivās tava rāvaṇa | ye tvām utpatham ārūḍhaṃ na nigṛhṇanti sarvaśaḥ ||
โอ้ราวณะ มนตรีของท่านแท้จริงสมควรถูกประหาร—แต่กลับไม่ถูกประหาร—คือผู้ที่ไม่ยับยั้งท่านด้วยทุกวิถีทาง เมื่อท่านขึ้นสู่หนทางผิดแล้ว
O Ravana! the ministers should have prevented you by all means from adopting this wrong path. Since they have not done so, they deserve to be spain.
FAQs
Dharma for ministers is loyal restraint: they must prevent the king from adharma even at personal risk. Silence in the face of the ruler’s wrong course is treated as culpable.
Mārīca rebukes the court around Rāvaṇa for failing to stop him from pursuing a disastrous, unrighteous plan.
Courageous counsel (nīti-dhairya): the moral strength to oppose a powerful leader’s harmful decision.