If the appropriation of another's wealth be not regarded as right, how, O monarch, will kings practise virtue on this Earth? Learned men have, in the Vedas, laid down this injunction.
न चेद्धर्तव्यमन्यस्य कथं तद्धर्ममारभेत्। एतावानेव वेदेषु निश्चयः कविभिः कृतः॥