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The Thirty-Eighth Chapter
263. Always engaging them in meditation for the benefit of the people, and protecting their nature with respect, gifts, and trust. 257. You should protect the people who have submitted to you with justice. If you are inclined towards injustice, your livelihood will surely be lost. 258. Justice is of two kinds: the suppression of the wicked and the protection of the righteous. This is the eternal Dharma of the Kshatriyas, which should be protected by the rulers. 259. The deities of the divine weapons are also to be worshipped according to the scriptures. With their blessings, victory in battle is certain. 260. You should diligently follow this royal duty, without sloth, and deal with the people justly. 261. He who protects this Dharma becomes victorious in Dharma, for the Kshatriya who has conquered his own self and lives by justice can conquer the earth. 262. By acting justly, one gains fame in this world, acquires great wealth and the earth, and attains liberation in the next world, and gradually conquers the three worlds. 263. Thus, the great kings repeatedly instruct these kings in the ways of protecting the people, and they themselves protect them with constant contemplation of Yoga and Kshema. 264. This is their Dharma-based kingdom, a way of action, by following which one prospers in this world and the next. 265. This is the thirty-seventh kingdom.
Thus, for a long time, they protect the people and the kings. When they develop discrimination, they become eager to take initiation. 266.
1. The parts of the earth and other deities.
2. With affection, trust, and everything.
3. If there is a tendency towards P, L, D.
4. The loss of one's own kingdom occurs.
5. It happens by rule.
6. In this way.
7. Having given instruction.
8. They protect these L, 50, D.
9. By the way of action called kingdom.