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சாணக்ய நீதி - ஏகாத³ஶோத்⁴யாய: தா³த்ருத்வம் ப்ரியவக்த்ருத்வம் தீ⁴ரத்வமுசிதஜ்ஞதா । Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities. ஆத்மவர்க³ம் பரித்யஜ்ய பரவர்க³ம் ஸமாஶ்ரயேத் । He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path. ஹஸ்தீ ஸ்தூ²லதனு: ஸ சாங்குஶவஶ: கிம் ஹஸ்திமாத்ரோங்குஶோ The elephant has a huge body but is controlled by the ankusha (goad): yet, is the goad as large as the elephant? A lighted candle banishes darkness: is the candle as vast as the darkness. A mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No, he whose power prevails is really mighty; what is there in bulk? கலௌ த³ஶஸஹஸ்ராணி ஹரிஸ்த்யஜதி மேதி³னீம் । In the கலியுக³, after 10,000 years ஹரி (விஷ்ணு) will leave this earth. Water from the Ganga river leaves after 5000 years. After 2000 years, the village deity will also leave. க்³ருஹாஸக்தஸ்ய நோ வித்³யா நோ த³யா மாம்ஸபோ⁴ஜின: । He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh; the greedy man will not be truthful; and purity will not be found in a woman and a hunter. ந து³ர்ஜன: ஸாது⁴த³ஶாமுபைதி The wicked man will not attain sanctity even if he is instructed in different ways, and the nim tree will not become sweet even if it is sprinkled from the top to the roots with milk and ghee. அந்தர்க³தமலோ து³ஷ்டஸ்தீர்த²ஸ்னானஶதைரபி । Mental dirt cannot be washed away even by one-hundred baths in the sacred waters, just as a wine pot cannot be purified even by evaporating all the wine by fire. ந வேத்தி யோ யஸ்ய கு³ணப்ரகர்ஷம் It is not strange if a man reviles (Degrades) a thing of which he has no knowledge, just as a wild hunter's wife throws away the pearl that is found in the head of an elephant, and picks up a gunj(a type of seed which poor tribals wear as ornaments). யே து ஸம்வத்ஸரம் பூர்ணம் நித்யம் மௌனேன பு⁴ஞ்ஜதே । He who for one year eats his meals silently (inwardly meditating upon the Lord's prasadam); attains to the heavenly planets for a thousand crore of years. ( Note: one crore equals ten million). காமக்ரோதௌ⁴ ததா² லோப⁴ம் ஸ்வாது³ஶருங்கா³ரகௌதுகே । The student (ப்³ரஹ்மசாரி) should completely renounce the following eight things -- his lust, anger, greed, desire for sweets, sense of decorating the body, excessive curiosity, excessive sleep, and excessive endeavour for bodily maintenance. அக்ருஷ்டப²லமூலேன வனவாஸரத: ஸதா³ । The ப்³ராஹ்மண who eats roots from the earth without effort, who always lives in the forrest, one who always performs his duties with care ஶ்ராத்³தா⁴ is referred to as ருஷி or sage. ஏகாஹாரேண ஸந்துஷ்ட: ஷட்கர்மனிரத: ஸதா³ । He alone is a true ப்³ராஹ்மண (dvija or "twice-born") who is satisfied with one meal a day, who has the six samskaras (or acts of purification such as garbhadhana, etc.) performed for him, and who cohabits with his wife only once in a month on an auspicious day after her menses. லௌகிகே கர்மணி ரத: பஶூனாம் பரிபாலக: । The ப்³ராஹ்மண who is engrossed in worldly affairs, brings up cows and is engaged in trade is really called a வைஶ்ய (merchant). லாக்ஷாதி³தைலனீலீனாம் கௌஸும்ப⁴மது⁴ஸர்பிஷாம் । The ப்³ராஹ்மண who deals in lac-die, articles, oil, indigo, silken cloth, honey, clarified butter, liquor, and flesh is called a ஶூத்³ர (worker). பரகார்யவிஹந்தா ச தா³ம்பி⁴க: ஸ்வார்த²ஸாத⁴க: । The ப்³ராஹ்மண who thwarts the doings of others, who is hypocritical, selfish, and a deceitful hater, and while speaking mildly cherishes cruelty in his heart, is called a மார்ஜார (cat). வாபீகூபதடா³கா³னாமாராமஸுரவேஶ்மனாம் । The ப்³ராஹ்மண who destroys a pond, a well, a tank, a garden and a temple is called a ம்லேச்ச² (foreigner, who doesn't understand the workings of society). தே³வத்³ரவ்யம் கு³ருத்³ரவ்யம் பரதா³ராபி⁴மர்ஶனம் । The ப்³ராஹ்மண who steals the property of the Deities and the spiritual preceptor, who cohabits with another's wife, and who maintains himself by eating anything and everything s called a சாண்டா³ல (an outcast). தே³யம் போ⁴ஜ்யத⁴னம் த⁴னம் ஸுக்ருதிபி⁴ர்னோ ஸஞ்சயஸ்தஸ்ய வை The meritorious should give away in charity all that they have in excess of their needs. By charity only Karna, Bali and King Vikramaditya survive even today. Just see the plight of the honeybees beating their legs in despair upon the earth. They are saying to themselves, "Alas! We neither enjoyed our stored-up honey nor gave it in charity, and now someone has taken it from us in an instant."
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