If the king did not protect, everything would be destroyed untimely and every part of the country would be laid waste by robbers, and everybody would fall into dreadful hell.
ममत्वं च न विन्देयुर्यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥ अन्ताश्चाकाल एव स्युर्लोकोऽयं दस्युसाद् भवेत्।