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Sanatan Dharma

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Book 8 Chapter II Paragraph 5

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 8 - Concerning Vices and Calamities / Chapter II · Verse Paragraph 5

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My teacher says that a blind king, i.e., a king who is not possessed of an eye in sciences, is indiscriminate in doing works, very obstinate, and is led by others; such a king destroys the kingdom by his own maladministration. But an erring king can be easily brought round when and where his mind goes astray from the procedure laid down in sciences.