pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्निद्रावशं नैषि कच्चित् काले विबुद्ध्यसे। कच्चिच्चापररात्रेषु चिन्तयस्थर्थमर्थवित्॥
English: You have not (surely) become a slave to sleep. Do you get up from sleep at the proper time? O king learned in (the mysteries of) Artha, do you think at the dead of night what you should do and what should no do?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्मन्त्रयसे नैकः कच्चिन्न बहुभिः सह। कच्चित् ते मन्त्रितो मन्त्रो न राष्ट्रं परिधावति॥
English: You do not surely settle any thing alone or take advice of many. Counsels received fro the ministers surely do not spread all over your Kingdom.
Sanskrit: कच्चिदर्थान् विनिश्चित्य लघुमूलान् महोदयान्। क्षिप्रमारभसे कर्तुं न विघ्नयसि तादृशान्॥
English: Do you without procrastination accomplish measures of great utility that can be easily accomplished? Such measures are surely never obstructed (in your Kingdom).
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्न सर्वे कर्मान्ताः परोक्षास्ते विशङ्किताः। सर्वे वा पुनरुत्सृष्टाः संसृष्टं चात्र कारणम्॥
English: Do the ends of all works come to your sight? Are they all fearlessly examined? Once commencing any work are they given up and begun again? Do they fall into confusion at the commencement?
Sanskrit: आप्तैरलुब्धैः क्रमिकैस्ते च कच्चिदनुष्ठिताः। कच्चिद् राजन् कृतान्येव कृतप्रायाणि वा पुनः॥३३। विदुस्ते वीर कर्माणि नानवाप्तानि कानिचित्। कच्चित् कारणिका धर्मे सर्वशास्त्रेषु कोविदाः। कारयन्ति कुमारांश्च योधमुख्यांश्च सर्वशः॥
English: O king, do you accomplish your works by men that are trusted and incorruptible and that possess of practical experience? O hero, people surely know only the measures that have been accomplished or partially accomplished, and surely they can not know those that are, merely in contemplation. Have you appointed teachers, learned in all the Shastras and religious precepts, for the princes and for the chief warriors?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् सहस्रैर्मूर्खाणामेकं क्रीणासि पण्डितम्। पण्डितो ह्यर्थकृच्छ्रेषु कुर्यान्निःश्रेयसं परम्॥
English: Do you purchase one single learned inan in exchanges of one thousand ignorant men? The learned man confers the greatest good at the time of distress.
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् दुर्गाणि सर्वाणि धनधान्यायुधोदकैः। यन्त्रैश्च परिपूर्णानि तथा शिल्पिधनुर्धरैः॥
English: Are all your forts always kept filled with treasure, food, weapons, water, engines, and instruments, and are they protected by artisans and bowmen?
Sanskrit: एकोऽप्यमात्यो मेधावी शूरो दान्तो विचक्षणः। राजानं राजपुत्रं वा प्रापयेन्महतीं श्रियम्॥
English: Even one single minister who is intelligent, heroic, self-controlled, and discriminating cunfers the greatest good on a king of on a king's son.
Sanskrit: कच्चिदष्टादशान्येषु स्वपक्षे दश पञ्च च। त्रिभिस्त्रिभिरविज्ञातैत्सि तीर्थानि चारकैः॥
English: Do you ascertain by means of three and three spies who are all unaccounted with one another everything about the eighteen Tirthas of the enemy and fifteen of your own means?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् द्विषामविदितः प्रतिपन्नश्च सर्वदा। नित्ययुक्तो रिपून् सर्वान् वीक्षसे रिपुसूदन॥
English: O slayer of foes, do you watch your enemies with all possible care and attention and do you accomplish this unknown to them?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् विनयसम्पन्नः कुलपुत्रो बहुश्रुतः। अनसू युरनुप्रष्टा सत्कृतस्ते पुरोहितः॥ कच्चिदग्निषु ते युक्तो विधिज्ञो मतिमानृजुः। हुतं च होष्यमाणं च काले वेदयते सदा॥ कच्चिदङ्गेषु निष्णातो ज्योतिषः प्रतिपादकः। उत्पातेषु च सर्वेषु दैवज्ञः कुशलस्तव॥
English: Does your honored priest possess humility and purity of blood? Is he without jealousy and illiberality? Is he renowned? Has some wellbehaved, intelligent and simple Brahmana learned in the ordinances been employed by you to perform your daily rites before the sacred fire? Does he always rites before the sacred fire? Does he always remind you in proper time as to when your Homa (sacrifice) has been performed and when it should be performed (again)? Is the astrologer you have employed competent in reading physiognomy and interpreting omens and in neutralizing the disturbance of Nature?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्मुख्या महत्स्वेव मध्यमेषु च मध्यमाः। जघन्याश्च जघन्येषु भृत्याः कर्मसु योजिताः॥
English: Have you appointed respectable servants in respectable posts, indifferent ones in indifferent posts and low ones in low posts?
Sanskrit: अमात्यानुपधातीतान् पितृपैतामहाञ्छुचीन्। श्रेष्ठाञ्छ्रेष्ठेषु कच्चित् त्वं नियोजयसि कर्मसु॥
English: Have you appointed in high posts ministers who are guileless and well conducted from generations to generations, and who are above the common people?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्नोग्रेण दण्डेन भृशमुद्विजसे प्रजाः। राष्ट्रं तवानुशासन्ति मन्त्रिणो भरतर्षभ॥
English: O best of the Bharata race, your subjects are not (sorely) oppressed by your severe rule. Do your ministers govern your kingdom always receiving all orders from you?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् त्वां नावजानन्ति याजकाः पतितं यथा। उग्रपतिग्रहीतारं कामयानमिव स्त्रियः॥
English: Do they ever slight you as the sacrificial priests slight men that are fallen (from religious path), or as wives slight their husbands who are proud and who are debauches?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद्धृष्टश्च शूरश्च मतिमान् धृतिमाञ्छुचिः। कुलीनश्चानुरक्तश्च दक्षः सेनापतिस्तथा॥
English: Is your commander-in-chief brave, intelligent, patient, well-conducted, nobly born, competent, devoted to you and a man of confidence?
Sanskrit: ते कच्चिद् बलस्य मुख्याः सर्वयुद्धविशारदाः। धृष्टावदाता विक्रान्तास्त्वया सत्कृत्य मानिताः॥
English: Do you treat with respect and regard the chiefs (generals) of your army, who are experts in every kind of war-fare, who are pushing, who are well-behaved and endued with great prowess?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् बलस्य भक्तं च वेतनं च यथोचितम्। सम्प्राप्तकाले दातव्यं ददासि न विकर्षसि॥
English: Do you give to your soldiers they proper rations and pay at (the appointed) time? Surely you do not oppress them by withholding from them (their rations and pay).
Sanskrit: कालातिक्रमणादेते भक्तवेतनयो ताः। भर्तुः कुप्यन्ति यद्धृत्याः सोऽनर्थः सुमहान् स्मृतः॥
English: Are you aware that the misery caused by the arrears of pay and the irregularity of the issue of rations creates mutiny amongst the soldiers? The learned men call it the greatest of all mischief.
Sanskrit: कच्चित् सर्वेऽनुरक्तास्त्वां कुलपुत्राः प्रधानतः! कच्चित् प्राणांस्तवार्थेषु संत्यजन्ति सदा युधि॥
English: Are all the chief men (of your kingdom) nobly born? Are they all attached to you? Are they ready to give their lives cheerfully for you on the field of battle?
Sanskrit: कच्चिनैको बहूनान् सर्वशः साम्परायिकान्। अनुशास्ति यथाकामं कामात्मा शासनातिगः॥
English: Surely in your kingdom) a man who is beyond all control does not out of desire rule at pleasure over things pertaining military affairs.
Sanskrit: कच्चित् पुरुषकारेण पुरुषः कर्म शोभयन्। लभते मानमधिकं भूयो वा भक्तवेतनम्॥
English: Docs a man who shows exceptional merit in an act get from you more regard, and also an increase of rations and pay?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् विद्याविनीतांश्च नराज्ञानविशारदान्। यथार्ह गुणतश्चैव दानेनाभ्युपपद्यसे॥
English: Surely you reward by bestowing wealth and proper honors on men of learning and humility, and men who are skilled in every kind of knowledge.
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् दारान्मनुष्याणां तवार्थे मृत्युमीयुषाम्। व्यसनं चाभ्युपेतानां बिभर्षि भरतर्षभ।। ५५
English: O best of the Bharata race, do you support the wives and children of those that have given their lives for you, and those that have fallen into distress for you?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् भयादुपगतं क्षीणं वा रिपुमागतम्। युद्धे वा विजितं पार्थ पुत्रवत् परिरक्षसि॥
English: O son of Pritha, do you cherish as your sons the enemy who having been vanquished in battle, comes to you from fear, who has become weak and who has sought your protection?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् त्वमेव सर्वस्याः पृथिव्याः पृथिवीपते। समश्चानभिशक्यश्च यथा माता यथा पिता॥
English: O lord of earth, do the people of all the world consider you an an embodiment of impartiality? Can they come to you fearlessly as if you are their mother and father?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् व्यसनिनं शत्रु निशम्य भरतर्षभ। अभियासि जवेनैव समीक्ष्य त्रिविधं बलम्॥
English: O best of the Bharata race, do you reflecting well upon the three kinds of force, (at once) march, against your enemy when you hear that he is in distress?
Sanskrit: यात्रामारभसे दिष्ट्या प्राप्तकालमरिंदम। पार्णिमूलं च विज्ञाय व्यवसायं पराजयम्। बलस्य च महाराज दत्त्वा वेतनमग्रतः॥ कच्चिच्च बलमुख्येभ्यः परराष्ट्र परंतप। उपच्छन्नानि रत्नानि प्रयच्छसि यथार्हतः॥
English: O chastiser of foes, when the (proper) time comes, taking into your consideration all the omens you might see and having been convinced that the resolutions you have formed and their unsuccesses depend on the twelve Mandalas and having paid your troops their pays do you begin your march? O great king, O chastiser of foes, do you have gems and jewels to the chief officers of the enemy as they (each of them) deserve without the knowledge of the enemy?
Sanskrit: कच्चिदात्मानमेवाग्रे विजित्य विजितेन्द्रियः। परान् जिगीषसे पार्थ प्रमत्तानजितेन्द्रियान्॥
English: O son of Pritha, do you try to conquer your angry enemies who are slaves to their passions? Do you do it by conquering your own soul and getting mastery over your own passions?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् ते यास्यतः शत्रून् पूर्वं यान्ति स्वनुष्ठिताः। साम दानं च भेदश्च दण्डश्च विधिवद् गुणाः॥
English: Before you march against your enemy do you properly employ the four arts of conciliation, gift of wealth, production of disunion and the application of strength?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्मूलं दृढं कृत्वा परान् यासि विशाम्पते। तांश्च विक्रमसे जेतुं जित्वा च परिरक्षसि॥
English: O king, do you march against your enemy, after first strengthening your own kingdom? Having marched against them, do you try your best to obtain victory over them? Having conquered them with your might do (afterwards) you protect them?
Sanskrit: कच्चिदष्टाङ्गसंयुक्ता चतुर्विधबला चमूः। बलमुख्यैः सुनीता ते द्विषतां प्रतिवर्धिनी॥
English: Are your Chamus consisting of four kinds of troops, each furnished with eight limbs (wings) after having been well-trained by superior officers led out against your enemy?
Sanskrit: कच्चिल्लवं च मुष्टिं च परराष्ट्रे परंतप। अविहाय महाराज निहसि समरे रिपून्।॥
English: O chastiser of foes, O great king, in having to the kingdom of your enemy you surely do not kill your enemies without regarding seasons of reaping or famine (raging).
Sanskrit: कच्चित् स्वपरराष्ट्रेषु बहवोऽधिकृतास्तव। अर्थान समधितिष्ठन्ति रक्षन्ति च परस्परम्॥
English: Do the various servants in your own kingdom and those of your enemies continue to carry on their respective duties? Do they continue to protect one another?
Sanskrit: कच्चिदभ्यवहार्याणि गात्रसंस्पर्शनानि च। प्रेयाणि च महाराज रक्षन्त्यनुमतास्तव॥
English: O great king, you have surely appointed trusted servants to look after the food you eat, the robes you wear and the perfume you use.
Sanskrit: कच्चित् कोषश्च कोष्ठं च वाहनं द्वारमायुधम्। आयश्च कृतकल्याणैस्तव भक्तैरनुष्ठितः॥ कच्चिदाभ्यन्तरेभ्यश्च बाह्येभ्यश्च विशाम्पते। रक्षस्यात्मानमेवाग्रे तांश्च स्वेभ्यो मिथश्च तान्॥
English: O king, are your treasury, banks stables, arsenals, and female apartments well-guarded by servants who are ever devoted to you and who always seek your welfare? You no doubt first protect yourself from your domestic and public servants and you then protect those servants from your relatives and last of all you no doubt protect all of them from one another.
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्न पाने द्यूते वा क्रीडासु प्रमदासु च। प्रतिजानन्ति पूर्वाह्ने व्ययं व्यसनजं तव॥
English: Can any body know in the forenoon any of your extravagance in drink, in sports (gambling) and in women?
Sanskrit: कच्चिदायस्य चार्धेन चतुर्भागेन वा पुनः। पादभागैस्त्रिभिर्वापि व्ययः संशुद्ध्यते तव॥ कच्चिज्ज्ञातीन् गुरून्वृद्धान्वणिजः शिल्पिनः श्रितान्। अभीक्ष्णमनुगृह्णासि धनधान्येन दुर्गतान्॥
English: Is your expense always covered by a half, a third of fourth part of your income? Do you always cherish with food and wealth your relatives, superiors, merchants, the old, the helpless, the protected and the distressed?
Sanskrit: कच्चिच्चायव्यये युक्ताः सर्वे गणकलेखकाः। अनुतिष्ठन्ति पूर्वाह्ने नित्यमायं व्ययं तव॥
English: Do you accountants and clerks employ in looking after your income and expenditure always inform you in the forenoon all about your income and expenditure?
Sanskrit: कच्चिदर्थेषु सम्प्रौढान् हितकामाननुप्रियान्। नापकर्षसि कर्मभ्यः पूर्वमप्राप्य किल्बिषम्॥
English: You surely do not dismiss without fault servants who are able in work, who are popular and who are always devoted to your welfare.
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् विदित्वा पुरुषानुत्तमाधममध्यमान्। त्वं कर्मस्वनुरूपेषु नियोजयसि भारत॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, do you appoint after duly examining them (all the three classes of men, namely) the good, indifferent and the bad in posts to which they are respectively fit to the appointed?
Sanskrit: कचिन्न लुब्धाश्चौरा वा वैरिणो वा विशाम्पते। अप्राप्तव्यवहारा वा तव कर्मस्वनुष्ठिताः॥
English: O king, do you appoint men who are thievish, who are open to temptation, who are under age?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्न चौरेलुब्धैर्वा कुमारैः स्त्रीबलेन वा। त्वया वा पीड्यते राष्ट्र कच्चित्तुष्टाः कृषीवलः॥७७।
English: Do you oppress (the people of) your kingdom by the help of thievish men or by men who are open to temptation or by minors or by women? Are the peasants of your kingdom contented?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् राष्ट्रे तडागानि पूर्णानि च बृहन्ति च। भागशो विनिविष्टानि न कृषिर्देवमातृका॥
English: Are large tanks dug in your kingdom at proper distance, for which agriculture is not in your realm entirely dependent on rains?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्न भक्तं बीजं च कर्षकस्यावसीदति। प्रत्येकं च शतं वृद्ध्या ददास्यृणमनुग्रहम्॥
English: Are the agriculturists in your kingdom in want of food or seed? Do you kindly advance them loan (of seed grain) taken only a fourth part over every hundred (seer, mound etc.)?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् स्वनुष्ठिता तात वार्ता ते साधुभिर्जनैः। वार्तायां संश्रितस्तात लोकोऽयं सुखमेधते॥
English: O child, do the four kings of Bharata (agriculture, trade, cattle rearing and lending in interest) are carried on (in your kingdom) by honest men? O child, upon these depend the happiness of your subjects.
Sanskrit: कच्चिच्छूराः कृतप्रज्ञाः पञ्च पञ्च स्वनुष्ठिताः। क्षेमं कुर्वन्ति संहत्य राजञ्जनपदे तव॥
English: O king, do the five wise and brave men employed in the five chief ports, (namely that of protecting the city, fort, the merchant and the agriculturists and of punishing the criminals) always do good to your kingdom by working in unison?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्नगरगुप्त्यर्थं ग्रामा नगरवत् कृताः। ग्रामवच्च कृताः प्रान्तास्ते च सर्वे त्वदर्पणाः॥
English: Have the villages been made (by you) like towns and the outskirts of towns like villages for the protection of your city? Are they all under your supervision and away?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् बलेनानुगताः समानि विषमाणि च। पुराणि चौरान निघ्नन्तश्चरन्ति विषये तव॥
English: Are the thieves and the robbers that steal in your city and loot your towns pursued by your soldiers over even and uneven grounds?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् स्त्रियः सान्त्वयसि कच्चित् ताश्च सुरक्षिताः कच्चिन्न श्रद्दधास्यासां कच्चिद् गुह्यं न भाषसे॥
English: Do you console and protect the women? You surely do not place any confidence on them, or divulge any secret before any of them?
Sanskrit: कच्चिदात्ययिकं श्रुत्वा तदर्थमनुचिन्त्य च। प्रियाण्यनुभवच्छेषे न त्वमन्त:पुरे नृप॥
English: O king, hearing of any danger, and even reflecting over it, do you lic in the innerapartinents and enjoy luxury there?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् द्वौ प्रथमौ यामौ रात्रेः सुप्त्वा विशाम्पते। संचिन्तयसि धर्मार्थी याम उत्थाय पश्चिमे॥ कच्चिदर्थयसे नित्यं मनुष्यान् समलंकृतः । उत्थाय काले कालज्ञैः सह पाण्डवमन्त्रिभिः॥
English: O king, O son of Pandu, having slept during the second and the third divisions of the night, do you reflect over Dharma and Artha (in the last division of the night)? Do your accompanied by your ministers, feared in the mystery of Time, show your self well-adorned to your people after waking at the proper time?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् रक्ताम्बरधराः खगहस्ता: स्वलंकृताः। उपासते त्वामभितो रक्षणार्थमरिन्दम॥
English: O chastiser of foes, do men attired in purple clothes, armed with swords and adorned with ornaments, stand by you to protect your person?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् दण्ड्येषु यमवत्पूज्येषु च विशाम्पते। परीक्ष्य वर्तसे सम्यगप्रियेषु प्रियेषु च॥
English: O king, do you conduct yourself like Yama (the God of justice) in meting out proper punishments to those that deserve it, and also proper worship to those that deserve it? Do you do this equally to those that are dear to you and to those that you do not like?
Sanskrit: कच्चिच्छारीरमाबाधमौषधैर्नियमेन वा। मानसं वृद्धसेवाभिः सदा पार्थापकर्षसि॥
English: O son of Pritha, do you take care of your bodily ailments by taking medicines and also taking recourse to fasts and regularity of diet and of your mental illness by taking advice of the old men?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् वैद्याश्चिकित्सायामष्टाङ्गायां विशारदाः। सुहृदश्चानुरक्ताश्च शरीरे ते हिताः सदा॥
English: The physicians that have been appointed by you to look after your health are surely learned in the eight divisions of the science of treatment)? They are surely all attached to you and devoted to you?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्न लोभान्मोहाद् वा मानाद् वापि विशामाते। अर्थिप्रत्यर्थिनः प्राप्तान् न पश्यसि कथञ्चन॥
English: O king, out of covetousness, or folly or pride you surely never fail to decide the case between the plaintiff and the defendant who come to you?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्न लोभान्मोहाद् वा विश्रम्भात् प्रणयेन वा। आश्रितानां मनुष्याणां वृत्तिं त्वं संरुणत्सि वै॥
English: Do you, out of covetousness of folly, deprive of the pensions of the men that have come to you for protection out of trustfulness or love?
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् पौरा न सहिता ये च ते राष्ट्रवासिनः। त्वया सह विरुध्यन्ते परैः क्रीता कथञ्चन॥
English: Do the citizens and the people of your kingdom, being bought by your enemies (with bribe), try to create a quarrel with you by forming into an united party?
Sanskrit: कच्चिन्न दुर्बलः शत्रुर्बलेन परिपीडितः। मन्त्रेण बलवान् कश्चिदुभाभ्यां च कथञ्चन॥
English: Are your enemies, especially those that are weak, always repressed by you with the help of your troops? Are those that are strong repressed with the help of both good counsel and troops?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् सर्वेऽनुरक्तास्त्वां भूमिपाला: प्रधानतः। कच्चित् प्राणांस्त्वदर्थेषु संत्यजन्ति त्वयाऽऽदृताः॥
English: Are all your principal (tributary chiefs) rules of land attached to you? Are they ready to give their lives for you, if they are commanded by you?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् ते सर्वविद्यासु गुणतोऽर्चा प्रवर्तते। ब्राह्मणानां च साधूनां तव नैःश्रेयसी शुभा। दक्षिणास्त्वं ददास्येषां नित्यं स्वर्गापवर्गदाः॥
English: Do you worship Brahmanas and wise men according to their respective merits as regards their 'nowledge in all the branches of learning? Such worship is undoubtedly beneficial to you.
Sanskrit: कच्चिद् धर्मे त्रयीमूले पूर्वैराचरिते जनैः। यतमानस्तथा कर्तुं तस्मिन् कर्मणि वर्तसे॥
English: Have you your faith in the religion based on the three (Vedas) and followed by men who have gone before you? Do you with care follow the practices practised by them?
Sanskrit: कच्चित्तव गृहेऽन्नानि स्वादून्यश्नन्ति वै द्विजाः। गुणवन्ति गुणोपेतास्तवाध्यक्षं सदक्षिणम्॥ ॥
English: Are the accomplished Brahmanas entertained in your presence with delicious and nutritive food in your house? Do they get (proper) Dakshinas after the feast?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् क्रतूनेकचित्तो वाजपेयांश्च सर्वशः। पुण्डरीकांश्च कात्स्येन यतसे कर्तुमात्मवान्॥
English: With steadiness of mind and with complete self-possession, do you try to perform Vajpeya, Pundarikas and other sacrifices with all necessary rites?
Sanskrit: कच्चिज्ज्ञातीन् गुरून् वृद्धान् दैवतांस्तापसानपि। चैत्यांश्च वृक्षान् कल्याणान् ब्राह्मणांश्च नमस्यसि।। १०१
English: Do you bow your head to your relatives and to your superiors, to the gods, to the ascetics, to old men, to the large trees that are so beneficial (to men) and to the Brahmanas?
Sanskrit: कच्चिछोको न मन्युर्वा त्वया प्रोत्पाद्यतेऽनघ। अपि मङ्गलहस्तश्च जनः पार्श्वे नु तिष्ठति॥
English: O sinless one, you do not surely inspire anger or create grief in another person? Do men that are capable of granting you auspicious fruits always stand at your side?
Sanskrit: कच्चिदेषा च ते बुद्धिर्वृत्तिरेषा च तेऽनघ। आयुष्या च यशस्या च धर्मकामार्थदर्शिनी॥
English: O sinless one, are your disposition and practice such as I have described, and such as always lengthen the period of life spread fame and help the cause of Dharma, Artha and Kama?
Sanskrit: एतया वर्तमानस्य बुद्ध्या राष्ट्रं न सीदति। विजित्य च महीं राजा सोऽत्यन्तसुखमेधते॥
English: He who conducts himself thus never finds his kingdom distressed or afflicted. Such a king subjugates the whole earth and enjoys great happiness.
Sanskrit: कच्चिदार्यो विशुद्धात्मा क्षारितश्चौरकर्मणि। अदृष्टशास्त्रकुशलैर्न लोभाद् वध्यते शुचिः॥ दुष्टो गृहीतस्तत्कारी तज्ज्ञैर्दृष्टः सकारणः। कच्चिन्न मुच्यते स्तेनो द्रव्यलोभान्नरर्षभ॥
English: O best of men, no well-beloved, puresouled and respected person is surely deceived and his life is not taken in a false charge of theft by your ministers, who are ignorant of Shastras and who are covetous? Your ministers do surely never, out of covetousness, allow a real thief to escape, knowing him to be such and after arresting him with the booty on him?
Sanskrit: उत्पन्नान् कच्चिदाढ्यस्य दरिद्रस्य च भारत। अर्थान् न मिथ्या पश्यन्ति तवामात्या हृता जनैः।।
English: O descendant of Bharata, your ministers being bribed do never decide wrongly the disputes that arise between the poor and the rich?
Sanskrit: नास्तिक्यमनृतं क्रोधं प्रमादं दीर्घसूत्रताम्। अदर्शनं ज्ञानवतामालस्यं पञ्चवृत्तिताम्। एकचिन्तनमनामनर्थज्ञैश्च चिन्तनम्॥ निश्चितानामनारम्भं मन्त्रस्यापरिरक्षणम्। मङ्गलाद्यप्रयोगं च प्रत्युत्थानं च सर्वतः॥ कच्चित्वं वर्जयस्येतान् राजदोषांश्चतुर्दश। प्रायशो यैर्विनश्यन्ति कृतमूलापि पार्थिवाः॥
English: Do you keep yourself aloof from the fourteen vices of kings namely, atheism, untruthfulness, anger, carelessness, procrastination, non-visiting the wise, idleness, restlessness of mind, taking counsel with one man only, consultation with persons ignorant of the science of Artha, abandonment of a settled plain divulgence of counsels, unaccomplishment of beneficial projects and undertaking everything without reflection? O king, even those kings that are firmly seated on their thrones are ruined by these (vices).
Sanskrit: कच्चित् ते सफला वेदाः कच्चितः ते सफलं धनम्। कच्चित्ते सफला दाराः कच्चित्ते सफलं श्रुतम्॥
English: Has your study of the Vedas been successful? Have your wealth, the knowledge of Shastras and marriage been successful?
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कथं वै सफला वेदाः कथं वै सफलं धनम्। कथं वै सफला दाराः कथं वै सफलं श्रुतम्॥
English: Yudhishthira said O Rishi, how do the study of the Vedas wealth, wife and the knowledge of Shastras become successful?
Sanskrit: नारद उवाच अग्निहोत्रफला वेदा दत्तभुक्तफलं धनम्। रतिपुत्रफला दाराः शीलवृत्तफलं श्रुतम्॥
English: Narada Said The study of the Vedas is successful when he who studies it performs Agnihotra sacrifice. Wealth is successful when the possessor of wealth enjoys it himself and gives it away in charity. Marriage is successful when the wife is enjoyed and when she bears offspring. The knowledge of the Shastras is successful when it results in humility and good conduct.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एतदाख्याय स मुनि रदो वै महातपाः। पप्रच्छानन्तरमिदं धर्मात्मानं युधिष्ठिरम्॥
English: Vaishampayana said Having told this the greatly ascetic Rishi Narada then again asked the virtuous minded Yudhishthira.
Sanskrit: नारद उवाच कच्चिदभ्यागता दूराद् वणिजो लाभकारणात्। यथोक्तमवहार्यन्ते शुल्कं शुल्कोपजीविभिः॥ कच्चित् ते पुरुषा राजन् पुरे राष्ट्रे च मानिताः। उपानयन्ति पण्यानि उपधाभिरवञ्चिताः॥
English: Narada said O king, do your officers who are paid from the taxes to be realized from merchandise, take only their just dues from the merchants that come from distant place (to your kingdom) with the desire of gain? Are the merchants and traders well-treated in your capital and kingdom? Are they capable of bringing their goods without being any way deceived?
Sanskrit: कच्चिच्छृणोषि वृद्धानां धर्मार्थ सहिता गिरः। नित्यमर्थविदां तात यथाधर्मार्थदर्शिनाम्॥
English: O child, do you daily listen to the words fraught with Dharma and Artha, the words of old men learned in the science of Artha and capable of pointing out the ways of (both) Dharma and Artha?
Sanskrit: कच्चित् ते कृषितन्त्रेषु गोषु पुष्यफलेषु च। धर्मार्थं च द्विजातिभ्यो दीयते मधुसर्पिषी॥
English: Are Ghee and honey presented to Brahmanas for the increase of crops, kine fruits, flowers and virtue?