If chastisement did not uphold and protect, then destruction and confusion would have prevailed everywhere and all restrictions would have disappeared, and the idea of property would have gone away.
विष्वग्लोपः प्रवर्तेत भिधेरन् सर्वसेतवः। ममत्वं न प्रजानीयुर्यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥