Canto 2: Ayodhyā-kāṇḍa ()Chapter 36: Kaikeyī Forbids the King from Sending Wealth With RāmaText 2.36.18
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Ayodhyā-kāṇḍa
Chapter 36: Kaikeyī Forbids the King from Sending Wealth With Rāma
Text 2.36.18
तत्र वृद्धो महामात्रः सिद्धार्थो नाम नामतः।
शुचिर्बहुमतो राज्ञः कैकेयीमिदमब्रवीत्॥
tatra vṛddho mahā-mātraḥ siddhārtho nāma nāmataḥ
śucir bahu-mato rājñaḥ kaikeyīm idam abravīt
tatra = there; vṛddhaḥ = there was an elderly; mahā-mātraḥ = senior minister; siddhārthaḥ = Siddhārtha; nāma = by the name; nāmataḥ = and famous; śuciḥ = he was pure; bahu-mataḥ = greatly respected; rājñaḥ = to the king; kaikeyīm = to Kaikeyī; idam = the following; abravīt = he spoke.
There was an elderly senior minister to the king there. He was pure, greatly respected and famous by the name Siddhārtha. He spoke the following to Kaikeyī.
1 Siddhārtha was one of the eight famous chief ministers of King Daśaratha as noted in text 1.7.2-3.
Siddhārtha was pure, that is, nonduplicitous.1