Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.