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ON THE ARMY ORGANISATION 



337. Nibkrta dhikrtastena nissaratvam hi tesvatali 675 

 gajo nibadliyate uaiva tulabharasahasrakaih. 



338. Uddhartum drak gajah saktah pankalagnagajam ball, 

 mtibhrastanrpani tvanyanrpa uddharanaksamah. 



339. B alavannrpabhr tye' lpe' pi srlh tejo yatha bbavet 



na tatha hmanrpatau tanmantrisvapi no tatha. 630 



340. Bahunani aikamatyam hi urpaterbalavattaram 

 babusutrakrto rajjuh simhadyakarsanaksamah. 



341. Hmarajyo ripubhrtyo na sainyam dharayet bahu, 

 kosavrddbim sada kmyat svaputradyabbivrddhaye. 



312. Ksudbaya nidraya sarvam asanam sayanam subham 685 

 bhavet yatha tatha kuryat anyathasu daridrakrt. 



337. By the king are humbled and censured the ministers, 



among them is therefore surely weakness ; an elephant 

 is not bound even by 1,000 loads of cotton. 



338. A strong elephant is able to draw out quickly another 



elephant who sticks in the mud ; a king is only able to 

 reform an iniquitous king. 



339. Even if the servants of a mighty king are insignificant 



there may be power and splendour ; but it will not be 

 the same with a weak king, even if his ministers are 

 not so. 



340. The unanimity of many makes a king very strong ; a 



rope made of many strings is able to drag a lion and 

 other beasts. 



341. A king whose kingdom is reduced and who has become a a weak 



dependent of his enemy should not maintain a larg-e , kin g<loni . 



, . how to 



army, he should always increase his treasure, for the strengthen 



recovery of power by his son and descendants. 



342. He should so work that through hunger and sleepiness 



every kind of food and couch becomes agreeable, 

 otherwise he will soon become poor. 



