Panchatantra Punches Part 8

36. Rulers may be honored gentlemen, they may be devoted, still servants leave a ruler who does not pay the salary.They are like birds that desert a withered tree.

37. Due to a sudden madness, a king embraces a vice, it is the duty of the servants to check him and make him nice.

38. 5 main dangerous vices:

Deficiency or Non existence: Due to absence of a ruler, adviser, people, friends, border fortification, wealth & power to punish

Corruption: When people become restless

Attachment:  Under love comes Drink, women, hunting, gambling. Under hatred comes anger, greed, cruelty.

Destruction: 8 kinds - An act of god, fire, water, disease, epidemic, panic, famine and floods.

Wrong policies - One makes a wrong use of 6 means - peace, war, base, change of base, alliance and duplicity.