Determining the efficiency, weakness or indifference of your forces, as well as who amongst them are satisfied and dissatisfied we should enter into fight with our enemies or form a treaty.
उच्चावचं बलं ज्ञात्वा मध्यस्थं चापि भारत। प्रहृष्टमप्रहृष्टं च संदधाम तथा परैः॥