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

11 (DUTIES AND PRINCIPLES)
1 Sovereignty belongs to one possessing advantages.
2 There is advantage of knowledge, advantage
of wealth, and advantage of comrades :
3 Gratification of his own family also and
protection of usage;
4 Agriculture, cattle-rearing, trade.
5 Universally the Lokâyata system of doctrine
is alone to be followed at the time of acquiring gain;
6 Only the Kâpâlika as regards attainment of
pleasure;
7 The Ârhata in regard to right.
8 The Lokâyata is not really profitable (?); the
advantage quickly perishes.
9 So the Kâpâlika, the Ârhata, and the Bauddha.
10 On these relying, he is like the moth and the fire.
11 The fruits are like ear-water [or water in
the ear?].
1 Guna is here used in an untechnical sense ('strong
point').
4 The Arthashastra mentions (c. 1) the same three
matters (krishi, pashupalya, and banijya) as the components of
varta, or business, one of the studies of a king.
5 The Lokayata doctrine, along with Sankhya and Yoga,
makes up the triad of philosophy in the Arthashastra (c. 1).
6 Elsewhere the Kapalikas are a Shaiva sect : see the St
Petersburg lexicon and reff.
8–35 These Sutras, which seem at variance with the
preceding, and which betray a strong sectarian bias, may be
suspected of being an interpolation. No. 36 joins on well to No. 7.
11 'Ear-water' : is this a synonym of 'sky-flower,
&c. = 'nonentity' ? or 'water in the ear' (sc. not in the mouth or
only heard of) ?