A WELL FILLED EXCHEQUER

There is nothing so effective as wealth, which has the quality of giving worth even to worthless men.

Wealth leads to dharma as well as happiness in this life if it is acquired with discrimination in the right way and without doing evil.

Wealth that can be got by discarding compassion (on the part of the acquirer) and without love (on the part of those who part with it) is not to be sought, but should be spurned.

Arul and anbu are here used to express respectively, tenderness of feeling proceeding from and towards the acquirer. Applied to the king, this verse condemns cruel exactions.

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