Having then mustered a large force and held consultations with good ministers, do you create dissensions among your enemies, and setting them against one another, break them all like a person breaking a Vilva with a Vilva. Or, making peace with the enemies of your foe, destroy the latter's power.
ततः सुहृद्बलं लब्ध्वा मन्त्रयित्वा सुमन्त्रिभिः॥ आन्तरैर्भेदयित्वारीन् बिल्वं बिल्वेन भेदय। परैर्वा संविदं कृत्वा बलमप्यस्य घातय॥