Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s37.10

c11.s37.10

“King Devānāmpriya Priyadarśin is honouring all sects (*pāshaṇḍas*) : both ascetics and householders ; both with gifts and with honours of various kinds he is honouring them. But Devānāmpriya does not value either gifts or honours so highly as this viz., that a promotion of the essentials (*sāra-vṛddhi*) should take place. But a promotion of the essentials is possible in many ways. But the root is this, viz., guarding one’s speech (*vaco-gupti*), i.e. that neither praising one’s own sect nor blaming other sects should take place on improper occasions, or that it should be moderate in every case. But other sects ought to be duly honoured in every case.