You should try to steal a march by producing, with the help your ministers, dissension's among his aristocracy and feudatory chiefs. A powerful king should never seek to root out weak kings, for these do good to the world by cherishing the good and punishing the wicked. O foremost of kings, you should live, conducting yourself like a cane.
कौन्तेय तं न हिंसेत् स यो महीं विजिगीषते। गणानां भेदने योगमीप्सेथाः सह मन्त्रिभिः॥ साधुसंग्रहणाच्चैव पापनिग्रहणात् तथा। दुर्वलाश्चैव सततं नान्वेष्टव्या बलीयसा॥