बार्हस्पत्य सूत्र / अर्थशास्त्र (महर्षि बृहस्पति - प्राचीन दण्डनीति, राजधर्म एवं कूटनीति सटीक)

( 4 ) cessors and successors in respect of wealth, popularity, nobility, and magnanimity. 45 Traditional right, goodwill of dependents, and councillors, relatives, friends, kinsmen, he should all alike consider; 46 In respect of dependents, punishment and largesse, within and without; 47 In respect of councillors, conciliation, disse- nsion, and largesse; 48 In respect of relatives, allotments of income for the sake of conciliation, dissension, largesse. 49 To even an unwelcome speech he should listen. 50 In bad weather, when the planets are hostile, at the nakshatra of three birthdays, and when serious business presents itself he should not attend to festivities. 51 He should attach to himself a wife of the same country, of the same form, and of noble birth. 52 He should cause especially dissensions (among the wives); excessive conciliation, excessive largesse are not to be practised, nor punishment to be used towards women, nor pretended inobservance. 53 Among them he should not say much. 54 Among village petitioners, panegyrists, bards, minstrels, actors, dancing-women, instructors, liars, boys, pimps, traders, herdsmen, harlots, mean kings, he is to be addressed in pompous untruths. 46 'Within and without' : sc. the capital. 50 'Three birthdays' : perhaps his own, that of his father, and that of his grandfather. 51 'Of the same form' (ekarūpiṇī) : perhaps = ' of the same caste' (ekavarṇā).