Kural 551<\/p>\n
More malicious than a professional murderer is the monarch
\nwho rules his people with injustice and oppression.
\nKural 552<\/p>\n
A scepter-wielding king requesting a gift is like
\na lance-bearing robber demanding, ”Give me all you have.”
\nKural 553<\/p>\n
Day to day the king must seek out and punish unlawfulness,
\nor day by day his country will plummet toward ruin.
\nKural 554<\/p>\n
Without thinking, a king rules crookedly, and thus
\nforfeits his subjects’ loyalty, together with his own fortune.
\nKural 555<\/p>\n
Are not the tears of a people who cannot bear their monarch’s
\noppressive reign the force that erodes his prosperity?
\nKural 556<\/p>\n
Ruling rightly, a monarch may long endure.
\nWithout that, his majesty is rightfully unenduring.
\nKural 557<\/p>\n
As the Earth fares under a rainless sky,
\nso do a people languish under an unkind king.
\nKural 558<\/p>\n
Possessions hold less pleasure than poverty
\nfor oppressed subjects living under an unjust king.
\nKural 559<\/p>\n
If the king acts contrary to justice, contrary seasons will befall
\nthe land and rain-laden clouds will fail to come forth.
\nKural 560<\/p>\n
If the people’s protector fails to protect
\nbrahmins will forget the Vedas and cows’ milk will dry up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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