All the ordinances of the science of punishment, O king, came in their bodily forms to that best of men. The son of Vena then with joined-hands, said to those great Rishis.
तं दण्डनीतिः सकला श्रिता राजन् नरोत्तमम्। ततस्तु प्राञ्जलिर्वैन्यो महर्षीस्तानुवाच ह॥