Shloka 11
Adhyaya 27 — Madālasa’s Instruction to King Alarka: Royal Ethics, Self-Conquest, and Statecraft
यस्त्वेतानविजित्यैव वैरिणो विजिगीषते ।
सोऽजितात्मा जितामात्यः शत्रुवर्गेण बाध्यते ॥
yas tv etān avijityaiva vairiṇo vijigīṣate /
so 'jitātmā jitāmātyaḥ śatruvargeṇa bādhyate
しかし、これらの内なる要因をまず克服せずして外敵を征服しようとする者は――大臣たちを従わせてもなお自己が未だ征服されぬままなら――敵の群れによって圧迫される。
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FAQs
Ambition without self-mastery is self-defeating: even if administrative machinery is forced into obedience, the ruler’s own ungoverned impulses create vulnerabilities that enemies exploit.
Ancillary nīti; not pancalakṣaṇa.
A mind that subdues externals but not itself is ‘split’; such inner incoherence invites ‘enemy forces’—stress, confusion, and reactive patterns—to dominate.