The characteristics and uses of Panavas, Anakas, conchs and drums. O Yudhishthira, the six sorts of articles viz., gems, animals, lands, dresses, female slaves, and gold and means of acquiring them and of destroying them, pacification of newly acquired kingdom, honouring the good, making friendship with the learned, knowledge of the rules of gifts and religious rites such as Homa, the touch of auspicious articles, attention to and adoring of the body, the manner of preparing and using food, piety of conduct, the attaininent of prosperity by following one path, truthfulness of speech, sweetness of speech, observance of acts on occasions of festivity and social gatherings and those done within the household, the open and secret acts of persons in all places of meeting, the constant supervision of the conduct of men, the freedom of Brahmanas from punishment, the infliction of reasonable punishment, honours paid to dependents for kinship and merit, the protection of subjects and the means of extending the territories, the advice that a king, who lives in the midst of a dozen kings, should follow regarding the four kinds of enemies, the four kinds of allies, and the four kinds of neutrals, the seventy two acts laid down in medical works about the protection, exercise, and improvement of the body, and the practices of particular countries, tribes and families, were all duly described in that work.