Vasumanas said By what means do creatures grow and by what are they destroyed? (you of great wisdom, by worshipping whom do they succeed in acquiring eternal happiness. Thus questioned by the highly powerful Koshala king Brihaspati of great wisdom described to him coolly about the regard which should be paid to kings.
वसुमना उवाच केन भूतानि वर्धन्ते क्षयं गच्छन्ति केन वा। कमर्चन्तो महाप्राज्ञ सुखमव्ययमाप्नुयुः॥ एवं पृष्टो महाप्राज्ञः कौसल्येनामितौजसा। राजसत्कारमव्यग्रं शशंसास्मै बृहस्पतिः॥