feet, and do every other act that is necessary.  Doing these acts of piety and discharging other acts that are for thy own good, thou shouldst (by presents) cause those Brahmanas to utter benedictions on thee for the success of thy purposes.  Endued with sincerity, and wisdom and intelligence, O Bharata, thou shouldst adopt truth and avoid lust and wrath.  That foolish king who pursues Profit without driving away lust and wrath, fails to acquire virtue and ultimately sacrifices Profit as well.  Never employ those that are covetous and foolish in matters connected with Pleasure and Profit.  Thou shouldst always employ in all thy acts those that are free from covetousness and possessed of intelligence.  Stained with lust and wrath and unskilled in the transaction of business foolish persons, if vested with authority in matters of Profit, always oppress the people by diverse contrivances productive of mischief.  With a sixth part upon fair calculation, of the yield of the soil as his tribute, with fines and forfeitures levied upon offenders, with the imposts, according to the scriptures, upon merchants and traders in return for the protection granted to them, a king should fill his treasury.[226] Realising this just tribute and governing the kingdom properly the king should, with heedfulness, act in such a way that his subjects may not feel the pressure of want.  Men become deeply devoted to that king who discharges the duty of protection properly, who is endued with liberality, who is steady in the observance of righteousness, who is vigilant, and who is free from Just and hate.  Never desire to fill thy treasury by acting unrighteously or from covetousness.  That king who does not act in accordance with the scriptures fails to earn wealth and religious merit.  That king who is mindful only of the means of acquiring wealth, never succeeds in acquiring both religious merit and wealth.  The wealth again that he acquires (by such means) is seen to be lavished on unworthy objects.[227] That avaricious king who through folly oppresses his subjects by levying taxes not sanctioned by the scriptures, is said to wrong his own self.  As a person desirous of milk never obtains any by cutting off the udders of a cow, similarly a kingdom afflicted by improper means, never yields any profit to the king.[228] He who treats a milch cow with tenderness always obtains milk from it.  Similarly, the king who rules his kingdom by the aid of proper means, reaps much fruit from it.  By protecting a kingdom properly and ruling it by the aid of judicious means, a king, O Yudhishthira, may succeed in always obtaining much wealth.  The earth, well protected by the king, yields crops and gold (to the ruler and the ruled) even like a gratified mother yielding milk to her child.  Imitate the example, O king, of the flowerman and not of the charcoal-maker.  Becoming such and discharging, the duty of protection, thou mayst be able to enjoy the earth for ever.[229] If in attacking