Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Wealth

Advice to a King

He fosters, King, the calf who milks the cow,

And thou who takest of the wide earth tax,

Foster the people; with laborious brow

And sleepless vigil strive till nought it lacks.

Then shall the earth become thy faery tree

Of plenty, pleasure, fame, felicity.