बार्हस्पत्य सूत्र / अर्थशास्त्र (महर्षि बृहस्पति - प्राचीन दण्डनीति, राजधर्म एवं कूटनीति सटीक)

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85 Knowing all, he need not act.
86 Secrecy in regard to right, secrecy in regard
to home and going abroad, secrecy in regard to measu-
res, secrecy in regard to enmities; in failure of prestige
he should deny even the truth.
87 Physicians, astrologers, soothsayers he should
entertain, if possessed of conduct and character.
88 Even the truth, if causing grief or misfortune,
he should not speak.
89 Up to twenty-five years he should passionately
practise the study of sport.
90 Thenceforward acquisition of wealth.
91 He should keep himself free from indebtedness.
92 Indebted he becomes by three means, pleasure,
anger, and greed.
93 And he should continually guard his person.
94 He should not neglect the regular rites.
95 If there is a popular clamour, he may omit
a minor rite.
96 Upon a lost cause let him not stand;
97 Far to be avoided then is even a serious matter
of sovereignty.
98 He should not favour new commanders who are
Kusumântas.
99 A slight loss is to be borne.
100 As with families of elephants, bandits, noxious
serpents, and tigers living in forest or cemetery among
98 Kusumântas : this word, which recurs in sutra 105,
is quite mysterious (? = Pallava, or pallava, i e vita ?).
99 The meaning seems to be that a commander should
not be dismissed for a slight failure.
100 The idea seems to be that of the nursery rhyme