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Skandapurana 1.3.14.71

Skandapurāṇa 1.3.14.71

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1.3.14.71

arthaśāstrapareṇaiva vidhinā tamabodhayat..
ātatāyinamāyāṃtaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ vā tapasvinam..
haṃtukāmaṃ jighāṃsīyānna tena brahmahā bhavet.. 16.71 ..

he instructed him by the rule pertaining to statecraft alone: / "If an assailant, even a brahmin or an ascetic, approaches / wishing to kill, one should wish to kill him; thereby one does not become the slayer of a brahmin."

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