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CĀŅAKYA-RĀJA-NĪTI
 

 
मृदुनैव मृदुं हन्ति मृदुना हन्ति दारुणम् ।
 

नासाध्यं मृदुना किंचित् तस्मात् तीक्ष्णतरो मृदुः ॥ १३७॥

बहूनां चैव सत्त्वानां समवायो रिपुंजयः ।

वर्षधाराघरो मेघस्तृणैरपि निवार्यते ॥ १३८ ॥

बहूनामप्यसाराणां समवायो हि दुःसहः ।

तृणैरावेष्ट्यते रज्जुस्तया हस्त्यपि बध्यते ॥ १३९ ॥
 
137. CS 3.40. Also CRC 7.56, CRT 7.27, CPS 211.93.
Also in MBh 12.140.66 (3.29.30 Bhandarkar ed.), GP 1.114.49,
IS 4964. Also found in DhN (P) 64, NM (T) 6.15.
 
(a) छिन्धि MBh.
 
(b) कर्कशम् [दा°] IS.
 
(d) तीक्ष्णात् परो मृ° CRC, CRT, CPS.
 
This is probably not an original Cāṇakya maxim, but
borrowed from MBh. (Cf. GP 1.114.49 and maxim 121 above).
 
138. CV 14.4. Also CNP II 130, CNT IV 109, CPS 319.7.
Also in SRBh 387.409, IS 4424. Cf. CV 4.12.
 
(a) अपि [चे] CNP II.
 
(c) वर्षाघा° CVBn1, CVBng.
 
139. CRC 7.85, CRB 7.80, CRBh II 7.37. Also CPS 184.24
Also in PP 1.334, Pts 1.331, PtsK 1.376, GP 1.114.66,
BhPr 145, SRBh 83.3 (cf. 144.83), SV 2742, JS 403.9, IS 4425,
Subh 272, SRHt 193.72 ( ascribed to Kautilya ). Cf. HJ 1.35.
 
(a) अल्पसाराणां CRBh II, BhPr, SRBh 83.3, SV, SRHt.
(b) समवायः सुदुर्जय: Bh in PP; समवायो हि दुर्जय: IS (v.l.) ;
संयोगः कार्यसाधक: IS ( v. 1 . ) ; समुदायो PP (N in PP as
above), SRBh; दुरत्यय: BhPr, SRBh 83.3; समुदायो
हि दारुण: GP, SRBh 144, SRHt, IS ( v. 1 . ) ; बलावह:
IS, PtsK, Pañcatantra Hamburg MS.; जयावह: PP;
समुदायो जयावहः IS (v.l.).