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Book 12 – Chapter 089
BORI CE: 12-089-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-088-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच यदा राजा समर्थोऽपि कोशार्थी स्यान्महामते |
M. N. Dutt: Tell me, O grandfather, how should the king behave if, despite his great wealth, he seeks more! |
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BORI CE: 12-089-002 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-088-002 भीष्म उवाच यथादेशं यथाकालं यथाबुद्धि यथाबलम् |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said A king desirous of acquiring religious merit, should seek the good of his subjects and protect them according to considerations of place and time and to the best of his intelligence and power. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-003 यथा तासां च मन्येत श्रेय आत्मन एव च |
MN DUTT: 07-088-003 यथा तासां च मन्येत श्रेय आत्मन एव च |
M. N. Dutt: He should, in his kingdom, adopt such measures as would in his view secure their good as also his own. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-004 मधुदोहं दुहेद्राष्ट्रं भ्रमरान्न विपातयेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-088-004 मधुदोहं दुहेद् राष्ट्र भ्रमरा इव पादपम् |
M. N. Dutt: A king should milk his kingdom like a bee collecting honey from plants. He should act like the cow-herd who takes milk from her without boring her udders and without starving the calf. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-005 जलौकावत्पिबेद्राष्ट्रं मृदुनैव नराधिप |
MN DUTT: 07-088-005 जलौकावत् पिबेद् राष्ट्र मृदुनैव नराधिपः |
M. N. Dutt: The king should act like the leech taking blood mildly. He should treat his subjects like a tigress carrying her cubs, touching them with her teeth but never cutting them therewith. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-088-006 यथा शल्यकवानाखुः पदं धूनयते सदा |
M. N. Dutt: He should behave like a mouse which although has got sharp and pointed teeth yet cuts the feet of sleeping animals in such a way that they do not at all become conscious of it. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-006 अल्पेनाल्पेन देयेन वर्धमानं प्रदापयेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-088-007 अल्पेनाल्पेन देयेन वर्धमानं प्रदापयेत् |
M. N. Dutt: Little by little should be drained from a prosperous subject. The demand should then be gradually increased till it reaches a fair amount. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-007 दमयन्निव दम्यानां शश्वद्भारं प्रवर्धयेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-088-008 दमयत्रिव दम्यानि शश्वद् भारं विवर्धयेत् |
M. N. Dutt: The king should increase the burden of his subjects by and by like a person gradually increasing the load of a young bullock. Treating them with care and mildness, he should at last put the reins on them. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-008 सकृत्पाशावकीर्णास्ते न भविष्यन्ति दुर्दमाः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-009 सकृत्पाशावकीर्णास्ते न भविष्यन्ति दुर्दमाः |
M. N. Dutt: If the reins are thus put, they would not refuse to to bear them. Indeed, sufficient measures should be taken for making them obedient. Mere entreaties to bring them to subjection would be of no avail. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-009 तस्मात्सर्वसमारम्भो दुर्लभः पुरुषव्रजः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-010 तस्मात् सर्वसमारम्भो दुर्लभः पुरुषं प्रति |
M. N. Dutt: It is impossible to treat all equally. Conciliating the leaders only, the ordinary people should be reduced to obedience. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-010 ततस्तान्भेदयित्वाथ परस्परविवक्षितान् |
MN DUTT: 07-088-011 ततस्तान् भेदयित्वा तु परस्परविवक्षितान् |
M. N. Dutt: Creating dissensions among the common people who are to carry the burdens, the king should himself come forward to conciliate them and then enjoy happily what he would draw from them. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-011 न चास्थाने न चाकाले करानेभ्योऽनुपातयेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-088-012 न चास्था ने न चाकाले करांस्तेभ्यो निपातयेत् |
M. N. Dutt: The king should never impose taxes in a bad form and on persons who cannot pay them. He should impose them gradually and with mildness, in proper time and according to due forms. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-012 उपायान्प्रब्रवीम्येतान्न मे माया विवक्षिता |
MN DUTT: 07-088-013 उपायान् प्रब्रवीम्येतान् न मे माया विवक्षिता |
M. N. Dutt: The ways I suggest you are the legitimate means of king craft. They are not known as deceitful means. One who tries to control horses by unfair methods only makes them furious. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-013 पानागाराणि वेशाश्च वेशप्रापणिकास्तथा BORI CE: 12-089-014 नियम्याः सर्व एवैते ये राष्ट्रस्योपघातकाः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-014 पानागारनिवेशाच वेश्याः प्रापणिकास्तथा |
M. N. Dutt: Drinking-shops, public women, pimps, actors, gamblers, and keepers of gambling houses, and other persons, of this sort, who always create disorders to the states, should all be checked. Living within the kingdom, these afflict and injure the better classes of the subjects. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-015 न केनचिद्याचितव्यः कश्चित्किंचिदनापदि |
MN DUTT: 07-088-015 न केनचिद् याचितव्यः कश्चित्किञ्चिदनापदि |
M. N. Dutt: No one should ask anything of any one when on distress prevails. Manu himself in days of yore has laid down this injunction regarding all men. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-016 सर्वे तथा न जीवेयुर्न कुर्युः कर्म चेदिह |
MN DUTT: 07-088-016 सर्वे तथानुजीवेयुर्न कुर्युः कर्म चेदिह |
M. N. Dutt: If all men were to live on alms and abstain from work, the world would, forsooth, come to an end. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-017 प्रभुर्नियमने राजा य एतान्न नियच्छति |
MN DUTT: 07-088-017 प्रभुर्नियमने राजा य एतान् न नियच्छति |
M. N. Dutt: The king alone is able to restrain and check. That king who does not prevent his subjects (from committing sins) is visited by a fourth part of the sins committed by them. This is the injunction of the Shrutis. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-088-018 भोक्ता तस्य तु पापस्य सुकृतस्य यथा तथा |
M. N. Dutt: Since the king shares the sins of his subjects like their merits, he should, therefore, O king, check his sinful subjects. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-088-019 कृतपापस्त्वसौ राजा य एतान् न नियच्छति |
M. N. Dutt: The king who fails to restrain himself commits a sin. He is visited by a fourth part of their sins as he does acquire a fourth part of their merits. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-018 स्थानान्येतानि संगम्य प्रसङ्गे भूतिनाशनः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-020 स्थानान्येतानि संयम्य प्रसंगो भूतिनाशनः |
M. N. Dutt: The following sins of which I speak should be checked. they are such as bring on penury on every one. What wicked act is there that a person under the influence of passion would not commit. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-088-021 मद्यमांसपरस्वानि तथा दारा धनानि च |
M. N. Dutt: A person under the control of passion indulges in stimulants and meat, and appropriates the wives and the wealth of other people, and sets a bad example to others. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-019 आपद्येव तु याचेरन्येषां नास्ति परिग्रहः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-022 आपद्येव त याचन्ते येषां नास्ति परिग्रहः |
M. N. Dutt: They who do not live upon alms may beg at the time of distress. The righteous king should make gifts to them from mercy but not from fear. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-020 मा ते राष्ट्रे याचनका मा ते भूयुश्च दस्यवः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-023 मा ते राष्ट्रे याचनका भूवनमा चापि दस्यवः |
M. N. Dutt: Let there be no beggars or robbers in your kingdom. It is only the robbers who give to the beggars. Such givers are not benefactors of men. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-021 ये भूतान्यनुगृह्णन्ति वर्धयन्ति च ये प्रजाः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-024 ये भूतान्यनुगृह्णन्ति वर्धयन्ति च ये प्रजाः |
M. N. Dutt: Let such men live in your kingdom as advance the interests of others and do them good, but not such as root out others. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-022 दण्ड्यास्ते च महाराज धनादानप्रयोजनाः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-025 दण्ड्यास्ते च महाराज धनादानप्रयोजकाः |
M. N. Dutt: Those officers, O king, who realize from the subjects more than what is due should be punished. You should then appoint others who will take only what is due. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-023 कृषिगोरक्ष्यवाणिज्यं यच्चान्यत्किंचिदीदृशम् |
MN DUTT: 07-088-026 कृषिगोरक्ष्यवाणिज्यं यच्चान्यत् किंचिदीदृशम् |
M. N. Dutt: Agriculture, tending of cattle trade and similar other acts, should be pursued by many persons in such a way that tey may not suffer injury. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-024 नरश्चेत्कृषिगोरक्ष्यं वाणिज्यं चाप्यनुष्ठितः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-027 नरश्चेत्कृषिगोरक्ष्यवाणिज्यं चाप्यनुष्ठितः |
M. N. Dutt: If a person engaged in agriculture, cattletending, or trade, feels a sense of insecurity, the king, incirs infamy thereby. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-025 धनिनः पूजयेन्नित्यं यानाच्छादनभोजनैः |
MN DUTT: 07-088-028 धनिनः पूजयेन्नित्यं पानाच्छादनभोजनैः |
M. N. Dutt: The king should always honour his rich su.bjects and should say to them,-Do you, with me, advance the interests of the people! |
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BORI CE: 12-089-026 अङ्गमेतन्महद्राज्ञां धनिनो नाम भारत |
MN DUTT: 07-088-029 अङ्गमेतन्महद् राज्ये धनिनो नाम भारत |
M. N. Dutt: In every kingdom, the wealthy form an estate in the realm. Forsooth, a wealthy person is the foremost of men. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-027 प्राज्ञः शूरो धनस्थश्च स्वामी धार्मिक एव च |
MN DUTT: 07-088-030 प्राज्ञः शूरो धनस्थश्च स्वामी धार्मिक एव च |
M. N. Dutt: He who is wise, or brave or rich. a influential, or righteous, or engaged in penances or truthful in speech, or endued with intelligence, assists in protecting his fellowsubjects, |
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BORI CE: 12-089-028 तस्मादेतेषु सर्वेषु प्रीतिमान्भव पार्थिव |
MN DUTT: 07-088-031 तस्मात् सर्वेषु भूतेषु प्रीतिमान् भव पार्थिव सत्यमार्जवमक्रोधमानृशस्यं च पालय |
M. N. Dutt: For these reasons, O king, do you love all creatures, and show the qualities of truth, creatures, and show the qualities of truth, men. sincerity, absence of anger and abstention from injury. |
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BORI CE: 12-089-029 एवं दण्डं च कोशं च मित्रं भूमिं च लप्स्यसे |
MN DUTT: 07-088-032 एवं दण्डं च कोशं च मित्रं भूमि च लप्स्यसि |
M. N. Dutt: You should thus hold the rod of punishment, and multiply your treasury. and support your friends and consolidate your kingdom thus, practising the qualities of truthfulness and sincerity and supported by your friends, treasury, and army. sincerity, absence of anger and abstention from injury. |
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