Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.

The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.