BY THE ANCIENT HINDUS. 



205 



The Sukraniti contains (IV, VII, 242) this very sloka. 74 

 The Harivariisa ascribes to Usanas the wise prescription, 

 that one should never confide in a person whose trustworthi- 

 ness one has not proved previously, and even to be cautious 

 in giving confidence to a trustworthy person, as the evils of 

 misplaced confidence are serious. This very sentiment, 

 though not quite in the same words, may be found in Sukraniti 

 HI, 47-49. 75 



It is peculiar that the Pancatantra refers these verses on the 

 acquisition of friends to a passage in the Sukraniti, and here, 



74 See Bajadharma LVII, 1, 2. 



1. Bhagavan Usana hyaha slokam atra visampate 

 tad ihaikamana rajan gadatastannibodhame. 



2. Dvavimau grasate bhumih sarpo vilasayan iva 

 rajanam caviyoddharam brahmanam capravasinam; 



in its stead we read in the Sukraniti, IV, VII, 242 : 



Rajanam capayoddharam brahmanam capravasinam 

 nirgilati bhumiretau sarpo vilasayan iva. 

 W See Harivariisa XVIII, 127-131. 



127. Kusauhrdena visvasah kudesena prajivyate 

 kurajani bhayam nityam kuputre sarvato bhayam. 



128. Apakarini visrambham yah karoti naradhamah 

 anatho durbalo yadvannaciram sa tu jlvati. 



129. Na visvaset avisvaste visvaste nativisvaset 

 visvastat bhayam utpannam mulanyapi nikrintati. 



130. Rajasevesu vif§vasam garbhasankramitesu ca 

 yah karoti naro mudho na ciram sa tu jlvati. 



131. Abhyunnatim prapyanrpah pravaram kltako yatha 

 sa vinasyatyasandeham ahaivam Usana nrpa. 



See also Pahcatantram II, 45, and Kamandaklya, V, 88, 89. 

 The Sukraniti expresses in the following slokas, III, 75-80, the same 

 idea : — 



75. Bhrtyo bhratapi va putrah patnl kuryat na caiva yat 

 vidhasyanti ca mitrani tat karyam avisankitam. 



76. Ato yateta tat praptyai mitralabdhirvara nrnam 

 natyantam visvaset kancit visvastam api sarvada. 



77. Putram va bhrataram bharyam amatyam adhikarinam 

 dhanastrl rajyalobho hi sarvesam adhiko yatah. 



78. Pramanikam canubhutam aptam sarvatra visvaset 

 visvasitvatmavadgudhastat karyam vimrset svayam. 



79. Tadvakyam tarkato'nartham viparltam na cintayet 

 catussastitamarhsam tannasitam ksamayet atha. 



80. Svadharmanltibalavan tena maitrlm pradharayet 

 danairmanaisca satkaraih supujyanpujayet sada. 



