It is known to you that the (people of this) spacious empire now governed by me was governed like to children by those sovereigns that were my predecessors.
विदितं भवतामेतद् यथा मे राज्यमुत्तमम्। पूर्वकैर्मम राजेन्द्रैः सुतवत् परिपालितम्॥