By acquiring only religious merit, a king, who is weak never succeeds in acquiring just and proper means for maintenance; and because he cannot, by even his best endeavours, acquire power by the help of only religious merit, therefore the practices in time of distress are sometimes regarded as quite of a piece with morality. The learned, however, opine that those practices beget sinfulness.
धर्मं प्राप्य न्यायवृत्तिं न बलीयान् न विन्दति। यस्माद् बलस्योपपत्तिरेकान्तेन न विद्यते॥ तस्मादापत्स्वधर्मोऽपि श्रूयते धर्मलक्षणः। अधर्मो जायते तस्मिन्निति वै कवयो विदुः॥