Do you observe neutrality towards the ascetics and towards those that show neutrality towards you? O hero, have you appointed as your ministers men like yourself, men who are old and pious, who are capable of understanding what should be done and what should not be done, who are nobly born and who are attached to you? O descendant of Bharata, the ministers are the basis of the victories of kings.
कच्चिद् वृत्तिमुदासीने मध्यमे चानुमन्यसे। कच्चिादात्मसमा वृद्धाः शुद्धाः सम्बोधन क्षमाः॥ कुलीनाश्चानुरक्ताश्च कृतास्ते वीर मन्त्रिणः। विजयो मन्त्रमूलो हि राज्ञो भवति भारत।॥