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¹ Thus whole sections of the Anuçāsana (the thirteenth book of the Mahābhārata) are devoted to instilling the moral grandeur of those kings who give land-grants, cows, gold, and clothes to the priests. At the same time, much that is didactic is imbedded in the poem without this aim. Only the tendency is apparent to extend moral teaching to instruction calculated to subserve the ends of cupidity.