Manu 9.295
सप्तानां प्रकृतीनां तु राज्यस्य-आसां यथाक्रमम् । पूर्वं पूर्वं गुरुतरं जानीयाद्) व्यसनं महत् ॥
saptānāṃ prakṛtīnāṃ tu rājyasya-āsāṃ yathākramam | pūrvaṃ pūrvaṃ gurutaraṃ jānīyād) vyasanaṃ mahat ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
But let him know (that) among these seven constituent parts of a kingdom (which have been enumerated) in due order, each earlier (named) is more important and (its destruction) the greater calamity.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.