By engaging spies, instruments of policy, and physical force, and adopting the means of conciliation, gifts, and dissension, and applying other methods for producing weakness, waste, and fear, the parties attack each other.
चारमन्त्रबलादानैः सामदानविभेदनैः। क्षयव्ययभयोपायैः प्रकर्षन्तीतरेतरम्॥