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237. Parasparam pratikulyam ripusenapamantrinam, 

 bhavet yatha tatha kuryat tat prajayasca tat striyah. 



238. Upayan sadgunan viksya satroh svasyapi sarvada, 475 

 yuddliam pranatyaye kuryat sarvasvaharane sati. 



239. Stmdprabhyupapattau ca govinasepi brahmanaih, 

 prapte yuddhe kvacinnaiva bhavet api paranmukhah, 



240. Yuddhani utsrjya yo yati sa devairhanyate bhrsam. 



241. Samottaxnadhaniai raja tvahutah palayan prajah, 480 

 na nivarteta sangramat ksatradbarmam anusmaran. 173 



242. Rajanam capayoddbaram brabmanam capravasinam, 

 nirgilati bbumiretau sarpo vilasayan iva. 174 



237. He sbould contrive so tbat there is mutual enmity among General 



the ministers and generals of tbe enemy and also among ^^!g al 

 tbe subjects and women. 



238. In case bis life is in danger, or all bis property is to be 



taken, be sbould fight having always considered the 

 six-fold expedients of his enemy and of himself. 



239. If he has undertaken the war for the defence of women and 



Brahmans and on account of the destruction of cows 

 even if done by Brahmans, he should never turn away. 



240. Who goes away having left the fight is quickly destroyed 



by the gods. 



241. A king who protects his subjects if he is summoned to fight 



by equal, superior, or inferior enemies should not turn 

 from the contest remembering the duty of a Ksatriya. 



242. A king who does not fight and a Brahman who does not 



travel about ; these two swallows the earth, like a snake 

 does the animals living in holes. 



1 73 See Manu, VII, 87. 



174 See Mahabharata, Rajadharma, LVII, 1, and the observations on this 

 sloka on pp. 204 and 205. 



