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Sanatan Dharma

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Book 1 Chapter XVIII Paragraph 1

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 1 - Concerning Discipline / Chapter XVIII · Verse Paragraph 1

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A PRINCE, though put to troubles and employed in an unequal task, shall yet faithfully follow his father unless that task costs his life, enrages the people, or causes any other serious calamities. If he is employed in a good or meritorious work, he shall try to win the good graces of the superintendent of that work, carry the work to a profitable end beyond expectation, and present his father with the proportional profit derived from that work as well as with the excessive profit due to his skill. If the king is not still pleased with him and shows undue partiality to another prince and other wives, he may request the king to permit him for a forest-life.