Persons, conversant with duties, consider that to be the greatest merit of the king, when, engaged in protecting all creatures, he shows mercy towards them.
तस्मादेवं परं धर्मं मन्यन्ते धर्मकोविदाः। यो राजा रक्षणे युक्तो भूतेषु कुरुते दयाम्॥