Bhojaprabandha 58_169
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As a few days passed in this way, the king gained renown as 'dear to the learned' and 'a Kubera in the wealth of charity.' Then poets wishing to see the king arrived from various quarters. As the king was thus expending wealth and the like, the chief minister once spoke to him in this manner: "Your Majesty, kings are victorious solely through the strength of their treasury; not otherwise.
He is victorious to whom belong excellent war-elephants; his is the earth. / He who has a treasury is unassailable; he who has a fortress is invincible. (59)