Sutra 10
प्रचारचरित्रसंस्थानान्यनुपलभमानो हि प्रकृतः समुदयमज्ञानेन परिहापयति उत्थानक्लेशासहत्वादालस्येन शब्दादिष्विन्द्रियार्थेषु प्रसक्तः प्रमादेन संक्रोशाधर्मानर्थभीरुभायेन कार्यार्थिष्वनुग्रहबुद्धिः कामेन हिंसाबुद्धिः कोपेन विद्याद्रव्यवल्लभापाश्रयाद्दर्पेण तुलामानतर्कगणितान्तरोपधानाल्लोभेन ॥ कZ_०२.७.१० ॥
pracāracaritrasaṃsthānāny anupalabhamāno hi prakṛtaḥ samudayam ajñānena parihāpayati; utthānakleśāsahatvād ālasyena, śabdādiṣv indriyārtheṣu prasaktaḥ pramādena, saṃkrośādharmānarthabhīrubhāyena, kāryārthiṣv anugrahabuddhiḥ kāmena, hiṃsābuddhiḥ kopena, vidyādravyavallabhāpāśrayād darpeṇa, tulāmānatarkagaṇitāntaropadhānāl lobhena.
An official who fails to ascertain movements/field activity, conduct, and operational condition causes loss to collective revenue through ignorance; through laziness, from inability to endure the effort of rising to duty; through negligence, being absorbed in sense-objects such as sounds; through fear—of public outcry, of illegality, or of harmful consequences; through desire, showing undue favor to petitioners; through anger, developing a tendency to harm; through arrogance, relying on favorites and on the supports of learning and wealth; and through greed, by falsifying weights and measures and by manipulating reasoning and calculations through concealed discrepancies.
FAQs
Kauṭilya links revenue loss to predictable behavioral drivers; governance must therefore monitor both processes (movement, status, accounts) and character/temptations that generate fraud.
Manipulation of weights and measures (tulā-māna) and accounting/calculation tricks with concealed discrepancies (gaṇitāntaropadhāna), i.e., quantitative falsification.