The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c29.82

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This thought came to me, 'I will publish precepts of piety, I will inculcate instructions in piety: hearing these, the people will conform, will be elevated, and will grow strongly with the growth of piety.' For this purpose precepts of piety were published, manifold instructions in piety were enjoined, so that my officers in charge of large populations might expound them and spread them abroad. The governors also, in charge of many hundred thousand lives, they also were ordered, 'thus and thus catechise the persons of the establishment of piety.'