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Sanatan Dharma

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Book 7 Chapter IX Paragraph 15

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 7 - The End of the Six-Fold Policy / Chapter IX · Verse Paragraph 15

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Not so, says Kautilya: an unsubmissive standing army is better as it can be made submissive by conciliation and other strategic means; but it is not so easy to collect in time scattered troops as they are engaged in their individual avocations.