འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.112
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) intro.112
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intro.112
King Balendraketu then teaches, as in the twenty-one-chapter version, the treatise on kingship in verse called The Instructions of the Lord of Devas. The treatise explains why a king is called a deva even though he is a human: it is because he is a deva sent to the human world to govern it. A king should therefore fulfill that duty, particularly by punishing the wicked. If he does not do so, calamities of all kinds will befall him and his kingdom. A righteous king will cause all kinds of good fortune to occur.