Do you keep yourself aloof from the fourteen vices of kings namely, atheism, untruthfulness, anger, carelessness, procrastination, non-visiting the wise, idleness, restlessness of mind, taking counsel with one man only, consultation with persons ignorant of the science of Artha, abandonment of a settled plain divulgence of counsels, unaccomplishment of beneficial projects and undertaking everything without reflection? O king, even those kings that are firmly seated on their thrones are ruined by these (vices).
नास्तिक्यमनृतं क्रोधं प्रमादं दीर्घसूत्रताम्। अदर्शनं ज्ञानवतामालस्यं पञ्चवृत्तिताम्। एकचिन्तनमनामनर्थज्ञैश्च चिन्तनम्॥ निश्चितानामनारम्भं मन्त्रस्यापरिरक्षणम्। मङ्गलाद्यप्रयोगं च प्रत्युत्थानं च सर्वतः॥ कच्चित्वं वर्जयस्येतान् राजदोषांश्चतुर्दश। प्रायशो यैर्विनश्यन्ति कृतमूलापि पार्थिवाः॥