Hitopdesh • Chapter 2 • Shloka 44
चित्रग्रीव उवाच -- सखे नीतिस्तावदीदृश्येव ।
किं त्वहमस्मदाश्रितानां दुःखं सोढुं सर्वथाऽसमर्थः । तेनेदं
ब्रवीमि । यतः ।
धनानि जीवितं चैव परार्थे प्राज्ञ उत्सृजेत् ।
सन्निमित्ते वरं त्यागो विनाशे नियते सति ॥ ४४॥
अयमपरश्चासाधारणो हेतुः ।
जातिद्रव्यगुणानां च साम्यमेषां मया सह ।
मत्प्रभुत्वफलं ब्रूहि कदा किं तद्भविष्यति ॥
Chitragriva said - Friend, as for (the principle of) Policy it is such, indeed! But I am not, at all, able to bear the affliction of these my followers (lit., protegees). Hence, I say this. For, A wise man should give up his wealth and also his life for another's sake; their abandonment in a good cause is desirable as destruction is certain. And this is another special reason. They bear an equality to me as regards kind, substance and qualities: say then, when and what will be the fruit of my being their lord?
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