चाणक्यराजनीतिः /56

INTRODUCTION
 

 
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45-7. Wealth is of short duration.
 

 
48. Wealth is the friend of the king in the negotia-

tion of peace, in war, for bribery, etc.
 

 
49-64. One who has wealth has everything,.

while those deprived of it are lost.
 

 
65. The king should collect the treasure like a

gardener plucking flowers without uprooting the plants.
 

 
66-8. The king should collect the treasure like a

milkman without injuring the cow's udder or exhausting

the cow, or injuring her offspring.
 

 
69. The king should collect the treasure like a bee

which does not injure the flower.
 

 
70. Like an ant-hill, honeycomb, and moon in

the bright fortnight, the king's treasury becomes bigger

and bigger, little by little.
 

 
71-2. The king desires wealth (treasure).
 

 
73. The king is doomed if he touches the

Brāhmaṇa's wealth.
 

 
74. The king should spend money from the treasury

on needy persons.
 

 
Respect for Knowledge and Learning
 

 
75-6. The king should respect learning and
knowledge.
 

knowledge.
 
77-8. The king is honoured in his own kingdom,

but the learned man is honoured everywhere.
 

 
79. Better a blind king than one deprived of
knowledge.
 

knowledge.
 
80. A thought of a wise man can destroy the
kingdom.
 

kingdom.