If men are treated with honour, they can abandon their very wives and sons. By winning over good men, by gifts, sweet words, carefulness, and purity of conduct, a king may acquire for himself great prosperity. Do not, therefore, O Mandhatri, be negligent of these qualities and acts.
त्यजन्ति दारान् पुत्रांश्च मनुष्याः परिपूजिताः। संग्रहश्चैव भूतानां दानं च मधुरा च वाक्॥ अप्रमादश्च शौचं च राज्ञो भूतिकरं महत्। एतेभ्यश्चैव मान्धातः सततं मा प्रमादिथाः॥