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

11 (DUTIES AND PRINCIPLES) 1 Sovereignty belongs to one possessing advantages. 2 There is advantage of knowledge, advantage of wealth, and advantage of comrades : 3 Gratification of his own family also and protection of usage; 4 Agriculture, cattle-rearing, trade. 5 Universally the Lokâyata system of doctrine is alone to be followed at the time of acquiring gain; 6 Only the Kâpâlika as regards attainment of pleasure; 7 The Ârhata in regard to right. 8 The Lokâyata is not really profitable (?); the advantage quickly perishes. 9 So the Kâpâlika, the Ârhata, and the Bauddha. 10 On these relying, he is like the moth and the fire. 11 The fruits are like ear-water [or water in the ear?]. 1 Guna is here used in an untechnical sense ('strong point'). 4 The Arthashastra mentions (c. 1) the same three matters (krishi, pashupalya, and banijya) as the components of varta, or business, one of the studies of a king. 5 The Lokayata doctrine, along with Sankhya and Yoga, makes up the triad of philosophy in the Arthashastra (c. 1). 6 Elsewhere the Kapalikas are a Shaiva sect : see the St Petersburg lexicon and reff. 8–35 These Sutras, which seem at variance with the preceding, and which betray a strong sectarian bias, may be suspected of being an interpolation. No. 36 joins on well to No. 7. 11 'Ear-water' : is this a synonym of 'sky-flower, &c. = 'nonentity' ? or 'water in the ear' (sc. not in the mouth or only heard of) ?