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40. Let him set out on an expedition in the months of Kaitra or Mârgasîrsha;
41. Or when some calamity has befallen his foe.
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42. Having conquered the country of his foe, let him not abolish (or disregard) the laws of that country.
43. And when he has been attacked by his foe, let him protect his own realm to the best of his power.
44. There is no higher duty for men of the military caste, than to risk their life in battle.
45. Those who have been killed in protecting a cow, or a Brahmana, or a king, or a friend, or their own property, or their own wedded wife, or their own life, go to heaven.
46. Likewise, those (who have been killed) in trying to prevent mixture of castes (caused by adulterous connections).
47. A king having conquered the capital of his foe, should invest there a prince of the royal race of that country with the royal dignity.
48. Let him not extirpate the royal race;
49. Unless the royal race be of ignoble descent. 50. He must not take delight in hunting, dice, women, and drinking;
51. Nor in defamation and battery.
52. And let him not injure his own property (by bootless expenses).
53. He must not demolish (whether in his own town, or in the town of his foe conquered by him,
40. The particle vâ indicates, according to Nand., that he may also set out in the month Phâlguna.
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