Having studied the Vedas duly and the works describing the duties of kings, O sinless one, having procreated children and performed similar other acts, having drunk the Soma and governed and protected all his subjects piously, O foremost of speakers, having celebrated a Rajasuya, the horse sacrifice, and other great sacrifices, having invited learned Brahmanas for reciting the scriptures and made presents to them according to their merits, having obtained victories small or great in battle, having placed on his throne his own begotten son or some Kshatriya of good birth for the protection of his subjects, having worshipped the departed manes by performing with due rites the sacrifice prescribed for honouring them, having attentively adored the gods by performing sacrifices and the Rishis by studying the Vedas, the Kshatriya, who in old age seeks another mode of life, may, O king, adopt it by leaving the preceding one and by the means be is sure to acquire (ascetic) success.
वेदानधीत्य धर्मेण राजशास्त्राणि चानघ । संतानादीनि कर्माणि कृत्वा सोमं निषेव्य च॥ पालयित्वा प्रजाः सर्वा धर्मेण वदतां वरः। राजसूयाश्वमेधादीन् मखानन्यांस्तथैव च॥ आनयित्वा यथापाठं विप्रेभ्यो दत्तदक्षिणः। संग्रामे विजयं प्राप्य तथाल्पं यदि वा बहु॥ स्थापयित्वा प्रजापालं पुत्रं राज्ये च पाण्डव। अन्यगोत्रं प्रशस्तं वा क्षत्रियं क्षत्रियर्षभ॥ अर्चयित्वा पितृन् सम्यक् पितृयज्ञैर्यथाविधि। देवान् यज्ञैर्ऋषीन् वेदैरर्चयित्वा तु यत्नतः॥ अन्तकाले च सम्प्राप्ते य इच्छेदाश्रमान्तरम्। सोऽनुपूर्व्याश्रमान् राजन् गत्वा सिद्धिमवाप्नुयात्॥