The king should also, O king, seek out good warriors possessed the necessary qualifications, for helping him in protecting his kingdom. A king, who seeks his own advancement, should never disregard his army. That king, whose soldiers are brave in battle, grateful in conduct, and well-read in the scriptures, whose army consists of infantry thoroughly versed in the works on religion and duty, whose elephant-warriors are brave, whose car-warriors are skilled in their own mode of fighting and well-versed in discharging arrows and in holding other weapons, succeeds in subjugating the whole Earth.
अन्वेष्टव्याः सुपुरुषाः सहाया राज्यधारणे। न विमानयितव्यास्ते राज्ञा वृद्धिमभीप्सता॥ योधाः समरशौटीराः कृतज्ञाः शस्त्रकोविदाः। धर्मशास्त्रसमायुक्ताः पदातिजनसंवृताः॥ अभया गजपृष्ठस्था रथचर्याविशारदाः। इष्वस्त्रकुशला यस्य तस्येयं नृपतेमही॥