A prince should deliver citizens from the calamity they bring upon themselves; but he should by no means drag them into those which he himself has brought on.
पौरा ह्यात्मकृताद् दुःखाद् विप्रमोच्या नृपात्मजैः। न तु खल्वात्मना योज्या दुःखेन पुरवासिनः॥