न मित्रकारणाद् राजा विपुलाद् वा धनागमात् । समुत्सृजेत्) साहसिकान् सर्वभूतभयावहान् ॥
na mitrakāraṇād rājā vipulād vā dhanāgamāt | samutsṛjet) sāhasikān sarvabhūtabhayāvahān ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Neither for friendships sake, nor for the sake of great lucre, must a king let go perpetrators of violence, who cause terror to all creatures.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.