The king should appoint five such persons to superintend his affairs, who are intelligent, shorn of pride, possessed of a good disposition, energy, patience, forgiveness, purity, loyalty, firmness, and courage, whose merits and faults have been well proved, who are aged, who are capable of bearing burden and who are free from deceit.
येषां वैनयिकी बुद्धिः प्रकृतिश्चैव शोभना। तेजो धैर्य क्षमा शौचमनुरागः स्थिति तिः॥ परीक्ष्य च गुणान् नित्यं प्रौढभावान् धुरंधरान्। पञ्चोपधाव्यतीतांश्च कुर्याद् राजार्थकारिणः॥