The king, even when reduced to straits, should never abandon his treasury, his machinery for punishing the wicked, his army, his friends and allies, and uther necessary institutions and the chiefs living in his kingdom.
कोशं दण्डं बलं मित्रं यदन्यदपि संचितम्। न कुर्वीतान्तरं राष्ट्र राजा परिगतः क्षुधा।॥