Brave men, the respectable, the virtuous, the learned, O Yudhishthira, Brahmanas conversant with Vedic texts and rites, and men of wcalth, should especially be protected.
शूराश्चार्याश्च सत्कार्या विद्वांसश्च युधिष्ठिर। गोमिनो धनिनश्चैव परिपाल्या विशेषतः॥