That king, O monarch, in whose territories a Brahmana becomes a thief, is charged by the learned as the doer of that misdeed.
यस्य स्म विषये राजन् स्तेनो भवति वै द्विजः। राज्ञ एवापराधं तं मन्यन्ते तद्विदो जनाः॥