Purananuru - Part 184
If you reap ripe paddy and mash it into balls for the feeding
of your elephants, less than what grows on a ma will be enough
for many days. But an elephant let loose to feed by itself
will trample a thousand mas of grain that will never touch its mouth!
When a wise king is conscious of the right path and he then taxes
as he should, his country will offer him as much as ten millions
and it will still flourish! But if he is a ruler without backbone,
who has no idea of the right and each day desires things which
he simply takes without love while his corrupt followers do the same,
then as if he were the field that an elephant
invades, he will not even feed himself and the world will collapse!
of your elephants, less than what grows on a ma will be enough
for many days. But an elephant let loose to feed by itself
will trample a thousand mas of grain that will never touch its mouth!
When a wise king is conscious of the right path and he then taxes
as he should, his country will offer him as much as ten millions
and it will still flourish! But if he is a ruler without backbone,
who has no idea of the right and each day desires things which
he simply takes without love while his corrupt followers do the same,
then as if he were the field that an elephant
invades, he will not even feed himself and the world will collapse!
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