As animals, killed by the vulgar, become the instrument of destroying the virtue and the religious acts of the destroyer so all other duties, if deprived of the protection offered by kingly duties, become subject to attack and destruction, and men, full of anxiety, neglect the practices laid down for them.
यथा जीवाः प्राकृतैर्वध्यमाना धर्मश्रुतानामुपपीडनाय। एवं धर्मा राजधर्मवियुक्ताः। संचिन्वन्तो नाद्रियन्ते स्वधर्मम्॥