Hitopadesha 0.11

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yauvanaṃ dhana-sampattiḥ prabhutvam avivekitā |
ekaikam apy anarthāya kim u yatra catuṣṭayam //

Youth, abundance of wealth, sovereignty, and lack of discernment— / even taken one by one, each leads to disaster; how much more where there is the group of all four?

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ity ākarṇyātmanaḥ putrāṇām anadhigata-śāstrāṇāṃ nityam unmārga-gāmināṃ śāstrānanuṣṭhānenodvigna-manāḥ sa rājā cintayāmāsa |

Having heard this, the king, with an agitated mind due to the non-compliance with authoritative treatises on the part of his sons, who had not studied the authoritative treatises and were constantly going astray, pondered:

Hearing these the King became disquieted, knowing that his own sons were gaining no wisdom, nor reading the Sacred Writings,[3] but altogether going in the wrong way; and he repeated this verse to himself—