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VI. VARIA
 
नक्षत्रभूषणं चन्द्रो नारीणां भूषणं पतिः ।
 
पृथिवीभूषणं राजा विद्या सर्वस्य भूषणम् ॥ २४५ ॥
बालोऽपि नावमन्तव्यो मनुष्य इति भूमिपः ।
महती देवता ह्येषा नररूपेण तिष्ठति ॥ २४६ ॥
 
245. CN 6, CS 3.77. Also CVAh 11.21, CPS 356.7.
Also in SRBh 161.342, IS 3212. (Cf. GP 1.112.13.) Also see
DhN(P) 254.
 
(a) ताराणां भू° CNJV, CNŚ1, CNŚ; शर्वरी CNTC, CNST,
CNSR, CNŚ, CNŚIK, CNSL, CNŚIV, CNSIB,
CNSPK, CPS.
 
(c) पृथिव्या भू° CNJV, CNŚ1, CNS.
 
(d) शीलं सर्वस्य CS; सर्वत्र CNPN, CNL, CNI II.
 
246. CVNS 16.21.
 
Also in MBh 12.68.40 ( Bhandarkar ed.), Mn 7.8, NPr 8.5,
HJ 2.81, HS 2.80, HM 2.82, HP 2.74, HN 2.73, HK 2.82,
HH 52.8-9, HC 68.15-16, DhSP 1.1.448.7-8 & 3.1.4.1-2,
VirR 17.21-2, RRK 68.16-7, SRBh 142.8, IS 4446.
 
(ab) न हि जात्ववमन्तव्यो मनुष्यैरिति भूमिप: MBh.
 
(b) भूपति: HP.
 
(c) पूज्या P in HS.
 
(d) ऽनन्तरूपेण B in DhSP 3.1.
 
This is probably not an original Cāṇakya maxim, but
borrowed from Mn.