If the king does not subdue those wicked men of sinful conduct, all good subjects then live in dread of him like a person living in a room within which a snake has concealed itself.
दुराचारान् यदा राजा प्रदुष्टान् न नियच्छति। तस्मादुद्विजते लोकः सर्पाद् वेश्मगतादिव॥