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THE MAHABHARATA OF KRISHNA-DWAIPAYANA VYASA TRANSLATE BY SABHA PARVA AND VANA PARVA

"I hope, O king, thy treasury, barns, stables, arsenals, and women's apartments, are all protected by servants devoted to thee and ever seeking thy welfare. 1 hope, O monarch, thou protectest first thyself from thy domestic and public servants, then from those servants of thy relatives and from one another. Do thy servants, O king, ever speak to thee in the forenoon regarding thy extravagant expenditure in respect of thy drinks, sports, and women ? Is thy expenditure always covered by a fourth, a third or a half of thy income ? Cherishest thou always, with food and wealth, relatives, superiors, merchants, the aged, and other proteges, and the distressed ? Do the accountants and clerks employed by thee in looking after thy income and expenditure, always appraise thee every day in the forenoon of thy income and expenditure ? Dismissest thou without fault servants accomplished in business and popular and devoted to thy welfare ? O Bharata, dost thou employ superior, indifferent, and low men, after examining them well in offices they deserve ? O monarch, employest thou in thy business persons that are thievish or open to temptation, or hostile, or minors ? Persecutest thou thy kingdom" —THE MAHABHARATA OF KRISHNA-DWAIPAYANA VYASA TRANSLATE BY SABHA PARVA AND VANA PARVA 

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