One should avoid useless acts of hostility as also insolent speech. As a fowler, carefully uttering cries like those of the birds he wishes to catch, or destroy, captures and brings them under his control, even so should a king, O Purandara, bring his enemies under subjection and then kill them if he likes.
विरमेच्छुष्कवैरेभ्यः कण्ठायासांश्च वर्जयेत्। यथा वैतंसिको युक्तो द्विजानां सदृशस्वनः॥ तान् द्विजान् कुरुते वश्यांस्तथा युक्तो महीपतिः। वशं चोपनयेच्छन् निहन्याच्च पुरंदर॥