Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t6.24

c4.t6.24

IDEALS OF JUSTICE.
"No king should punish an offence, and hear no pleas at all,
Not thoroughly sifting it himself in all points, great and small.⁴
The warrior chief who punishes a fault before he tries,
Is like a man born blind, who eats his food all bones and flies;
Who punishes the guiltless, and lets go the guilty, knows
No more than one who, blind, upon a rugged highway goes;
He who all this examines well, in things both great and small,