As regards military operations, a king, who knows his own strength, should, commanding a large army cheerfully and courageously give the order to march, without announcing his destination, against one shorn of allies and friends or already at war with another and hence careless or one weaker than himself, having first made arrangements for the protection of his own city.
यात्रायां यदि विज्ञातमनाक्रन्दमनन्तरम्। व्यासक्तं च प्रमत्तं च दुर्बलं च विचक्षणः॥ यात्रामाज्ञापयेद् वीरः कल्यः पुष्टबलः सुखी। पूर्वं कृत्वा विधानं च यात्रायां नगरे तथा॥