THE NITIPRAKASIKA. 



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payana replied that, knowing the wishes of the king, he had 

 undertaken his journey to satisfy them. A preceptor should 

 only speak when his pupil asks him and gives him thus an 

 opportunity of answering, for if the instructor should explain 

 without "being requested to do so, he would commit a sin. He Former 

 then goes on saying (I, 20-28), that, as Brahma, Eudra, po]ity.° n 

 Subrahmanya, Indra, Manu, Brhaspati, Sukra, Bharadvaja, 

 Graurasiras, and Vyasa had respectively written 100,000, 

 50,000, 12,000, 6,000, 3,000, 1,000, 700, 500, and 300 

 chapters on polity, 6 he would not enlarge on the subject of 

 polity. 



He relates further that as Prthu, 7 the son of Vena, had The happy 

 protected his subjects and conquered death, his subjects the* world 

 called him a ksatriya, as he had saved them from destruction ; 8 p^^ kmg 

 and that his title raja came from the love he felt for them. 9 

 The earth brought forth her produce without being tilled ; 

 the grass was beautiful, soft and golden, and was used by 

 men for their dress and their couch. Such distinction as 

 there is now between countries and towns did not then exist ; 

 and wherever people dwelt, there the earth yielded her gifts. 

 Prthu rendered water immoveable, he walked over the ocean, 

 mountains gave way to him, and his royal ensign was never 

 broken. He created 60,000 elephants and 6,000 mountains 

 of gold, and gave them to the Brahmans, together with the 

 earth and all her jewels. 



6 See my book On the Weapons, Army Organisation, and Political Maxims of 

 the ancient Hindus, p. 36 ; and Madras Joicrnal of Literature for 1879, p. 202. 



7 See Harivamsa about Prthu, Chap. II, 23—27 ; IV, 26—34 ; V and VI : 

 also Kumarasambhava, I, 2. 



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^Trf^ntTJJrTj I, 30 ; compare Eaghuvamsa, II, 53— 



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WTT^j I> 31 ; compare Eaghuvamsa, IV, 12 — 



