ders, a tenfold fyftem of duties must ever be fedulously practised:

92. Content, returning good for evil, re'fistance to sensual appetites, abstinence from • illicit gain, purification, coercion of the organs, knowledge of fcripture, knowledge of the fupreme spirit, veracity, and freedom from wrath, 'form their tenfold fyftem of duties.

93. Such Bráhmens, as attentively read the 'ten precepts of duty, and after reading, carefully practise them, attain the most exalted ⚫ condition.

94. A Bráhmen, having practised, with organs under command, this tenfold fyftem of duty, having heard the Upanishads explained, as the law directs, and who has discharged his 'three debts, may become an anchorite, in the boufe of his fon, according to the Véda;

95. And, having abandoned all ceremonial acts, having expiated all his offences, having • obtained a command over his organs, and having perfectly understood the scripture, he may ' live at his ease, while the household affairs are 'conducted by his fon.

96. 'When he thus has relinquished all forms, ' is intent on his own occupation, and free from every other defire, when, by devoting himself to God, he has effaced fin, he then attains the fupreme path of glory.

97. THIS fourfold regulation for the facerdotal clafs, has thus been made known to you; a juft regulation, producing endless fruit ' after death: next, learn the duty of kings, or • the military class.'

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.

On Government, and Publick Law; or on the Military Clafs.

1. 'I WILL fully declare the duty of kings; and "Show how a ruler of men fhould conduct him

felf, in what manner he was framed, and how his ultimate reward may be attained by him.

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2. By a man of the military class, who has ' received in due form the inveftiture, which the • Véda prescribes, great care must be used to • maintain the whole affemblage of laws.

3. 'Since, if the world had no king, it would quake on all fides through fear, the ruler of this universe, therefore, created a king, for the maintenance of this fyftem, both religious and civil,

4. Forming him of eternal particles drawn from the fubftance of INDRA, PAVANA, YAMA, SURYA, of AGNI and VARUNA, of CHANDRA and CUVE'RA:

5. And fince a king was compofed of par⚫ticles drawn from thofe chief guardian deities, • he consequently furpaffes all mortals in glory.

6. Like the fun, he burns eyes and hearts; nor can any human creature on earth even gaze on him.

7. 'He is fire and air; he, both fun and moon; he, the god of criminal justice; he, the genius of wealth; he, the regent of waters; he, the lord of the firmament.

8. A king, even though a child, must not 'be treated lightly, from an idea that he is a

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mere mortal: no'; he is a powerful divinity, ' who appears in a human shape.

9. "Fire burns only one perfon, who carelessly

goes too near it; but the fire of a king in wrath' 'burns a whole family, with all their cattle and goods.

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Fully confidering the bufinefs before ' him, his own force, and the place, and the time, he affumes in fucceffion all forts of forms, for • the fake of advancing justice.

11. He, fure, must be the perfect effence of majefty, by whose favour Abundance rises on • her lotos, in whofe valour dwells conqueft; in whose anger, death.

12. He, who fhows hatred of the king, 'through delufion of mind, will certainly perish; ' for speedily will the king apply his heart to ⚫ that man's perdition.

13. LET the king prepare a juft compenfation for the good, and a just punishment for the

bad: the rule of ftrict justice let him never tranfgrefs.

14. For his use BRAHMA' formed in the beginning of time the genius of punishment, with

a body of pure light, his own fon, even abstract 'criminal juftice, the protector of all created things:

15. Through fear of that genius all fentient 'beings, whether fixed or locomotive, are fitted for natural enjoyments and fwerve not from

• duty.

16. ' When the king, therefore, has fully con* fidered place and time, and his own ftrength, ⚫ and the divine ordinance, let him juftly inflict punishment on all those, who act unjustly,

17. Punishment is an active ruler; he is the 'true manager of publick affairs; he is the difpenfer of laws; and wife men call him the fponfor of all the four orders for the discharge ' of their feveral duties.

18. Punishment governs all mankind; pu'nifhment alone preferves them; punishment 'wakes, while their guards are asleep; the wife ⚫ confider punishment as the perfection of juftice. 19. When rightly and confiderately inflicted, it makes all the people happy; but, inflicted 'without full confideration, it wholly destroys them all.

20. If the king were not, without indolence,