Text 27]                      Lord Rāmacandra Rules the World
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He was not a sleeping monarch, as we can understand from His activities in sending His brothers to see to affairs outside the capital and punish anyone who did not obey the emperor's orders. This is called  dig-vijaya . The citizens were all given facilities for peaceful life, and they were also qualified with appropriate attributes according to  vaṇāśrama . As we have seen from the previous chapter,  vaṇāśrama-guṇānvitāḥ : the citizens were trained according to the  vaṇāśrama  system. A class of men were  brāhmaṇas , a class of men were  kṣatriyas , a class were  vaiśyas , and a class were  śūdras . Without this scientific division, there can be no question of good citizenship. The King, being magnanimous and perfect in His duty, performed many sacrifices and treated the citizens as His sons, and the citizens, being trained in the  vaṇāśrama  system, were obedient and perfectly ordered. The entire monarchy was so opulent and peaceful that the government was even able to sprinkle the street with perfumed water, what to speak of other management. Since the city was sprinkled with perfumed water, we can simply imagine how opulent it was in other respects. Why should the citizens not have felt happy during the reign of Lord Rāmacandra?
TEXT 27
प्रासादगोपुरसभाचैत्यदेवगृहादिषु । विन्यस्तहेमकर्त्तरौः पताकामिश्र मण्डिताम् ॥२७॥
prāsāda-gopura-sabhā- caitya-deva-gṛhādiṣu vinyasta-hema-kalaśaiḥ patākābhiś ca maṇḍitām
prāsāda —in palaces;  gopura —palace gates;  sabhā —assembly houses;  caitya —raised platforms;  deva-gṛha —temples wherein deities are worshiped;  ādiṣu —and so on;  vinyasta —placed;  hema-kalaśaiḥ —with golden waterpots;  patākābhiḥ —by flags;  ca —also;  maṇḍitām —bedecked.
TRANSLATION
The palaces, the palace gates, the assembly houses, the platforms for meeting places, the temples and all such places were decorated with golden waterpots and bedecked with various types of flags.