If, on the other hand, O Kshatriya, you think that you still possess any prowess, I shall describe to you about that line of policy which you may follow for recovering your kingdom.

If you can adopt that policy and try to exert yourself, you can still regain your prosperity. Listen attentively to all that I say to you fully.

If you act according to those counsels, you may acquire immense wealth, your kingdom and kingly power and great prosperity. If you like it, O king, tell me, for then I shall describe to you that policy.

The king said Tell me, O holy one, what you wish to say. I am willing to hear and act according to your advice. Let this my meeting with you to-day produce mighty results.

Casting off pride, desire, anger and joy and fear, wait upon your very foes, humbling yourself and joining your hands.

Do you wait upon Janaka the king of Mithila, always performing good and pure acts. The highly truthful king of Videha will, forsooth, give you great wealth.

You will then become the right arm of that king and secure the confidence of all persons. As an outcome of this, you will win over many courageous and persevering allies, pure in behaviour, and free from the seven cardinal faults.

By following his duties, à person of subdued self and having his senses under control, succeeds in raising himself and cheering others.

Honoured by Janaka enducd with intelligence and prosperity, you will certainly become the right hand of that king and enjoy the confidence of all.

Having then mustered a large force and held consultations with good ministers, do you create dissensions among your enemies, and setting them against one another, break them all like a person breaking a Vilva with a Vilva. Or, making peace with the enemies of your foe, destroy the latter's power.

You will then cause your enemies to be attached to such good things as are not easily · got at, to beautiful women and clothes, beds and seats and cars, all very costly, and houses, and birds and animals of various species, and juices and perfumes and fruits, so that your foe may be ruined of himself.

If one's enemy be thus managed, or if he is treated in differently, one, who wishes to act according to good policy, should never allow that foe to know it at all.

Following the conduct approved of the wise, do you enjoy every king of pleasure in the territories of your enemy, and imitating the conduct of the dog, the deer and the crow, be outwardly a friend to your enemies.

Make them undertake works which are difficult of accomplishment. See also that they enter into hostilities with powerful enemies.

Making them attached to pleasure gardens and rich beds and seats, do you, by offering such objects of enjoyment, exhaust your eneiny's treasury.

Advising your enemy to celebrate sacrifices and making gifts, do you please the Brahmanas. The latter will do good to you in return, and devour your enemy like wolves.

Forsooth, a person of righteous deeds acquires a high end. By such deeds men earn highly happy regions in heaven.

If the treasury of your foes be exhausted, every one of them, O prince of Koshala, may be subdued. The treasury is the source of happiness in heaven and victory on Earth. It is in consequence of their wealth that enemies enjoy such happiness. The treasury, therefore, should by every means be drained. Do not speak highly of manliness in the presence of your foe, but speak highly of destiny.

Forsooth, the man who depends too much on acts of worship of the gods soon meets with ruin. Making your enemy perform the great sacrifice called Vishvajit and divest him by that means of all his wealth.

Through this your object object will be accomplished. You may then inform your enemy of the fact that the best men in his kingdom are being oppressed, and point out some great asceit a master of Yoga.

Your enemy will then desire to adopt renunciation and retire into the woods seeking liberation. You will then, with the help of drugs prepared by boiling highly efficacious herbs and plants, and of artificial salts, kill the elephants and horses and men.

These and the many other well-laid plans exist, but they are all connected with fraud. An intelligent person can thus destroy the denizens of a hostile kingdom with poison,