The characteristics and uses of Panavas, Anakas, conchs and drums. O Yudhishthira, the six sorts of articles viz., gems, animals, lands, dresses, female slaves, and gold and means of acquiring them and of destroying them, pacification of newly acquired kingdom, honouring the good, making friendship with the learned, knowledge of the rules of gifts and religious rites such as Homa, the touch of auspicious articles, attention to and adoring of the body, the manner of preparing and using food, piety of conduct, the attaininent of prosperity by following one path, truthfulness of speech, sweetness of speech, observance of acts on occasions of festivity and social gatherings and those done within the household, the open and secret acts of persons in all places of meeting, the constant supervision of the conduct of men, the freedom of Brahmanas from punishment, the infliction of reasonable punishment, honours paid to dependents for kinship and merit, the protection of subjects and the means of extending the territories, the advice that a king, who lives in the midst of a dozen kings, should follow regarding the four kinds of enemies, the four kinds of allies, and the four kinds of neutrals, the seventy two acts laid down in medical works about the protection, exercise, and improvement of the body, and the practices of particular countries, tribes and families, were all duly described in that work.
पणवानकशङ्खानां भेरीणां च युधिष्ठिर। उपार्जनं च द्रव्याणां परिमर्दश्च तानि षट्॥ लब्धस्य च प्रशमनं सतां चैवाभिपूजनम्। विद्वद्भिरेकीभावश्च दानहोमविधिज्ञता।॥ मङ्गलालम्भनं चैव शरीरस्य प्रतिक्रिया। आहारयोजनं चैव नित्यमास्तिक्यमेव च॥ एकेन च यथोत्थेयं सत्यत्वं मधुरा गिरः। उत्सवानां समाजानां क्रियाः केतनजास्तथा॥ प्रत्यक्षाश्च परोक्षाश्च सर्वाधिकरणेष्वथा वृत्तेर्भरतशार्दूल नित्यं चैवान्ववेक्षणम्॥ अदण्ड्यत्वं च विप्राणां युक्त्या दण्डनिपातनम्। अनुजीविस्वजातिभ्यो गुणेभ्यश्च समुद्भवः॥ रक्षणं चैव पौराणां राष्ट्रस्य च विवर्धनम्। मण्डलस्था च या चिन्ता राजन् द्वादशराजिका॥ द्वासप्ततिविधा चैव शरीरस्य प्रतिक्रिया। देशजातिकुलानां च धर्माः समनुवर्णिताः॥