Verse 14

¹⁴One day the revered sage Angiras, wandering across these worlds, came to his house without meaning to. ¹⁵The king honoured him as the rule lays down, rising to meet him and making him an offering; and when the guest had been received and was sitting at his ease, the king sat by him with a gathered mind. ¹⁶The great sage honoured him in return as he sat there bowed to the ground in respect, great king, and spoke to him and said this: ¹⁷Is it well with you, and free of illness, with the parts of your kingdom and with yourself? For a man is kept safe by what he is made of, and a king by the seven. ¹⁸A king who sets himself squarely among the parts of his kingdom gets what is good; and so do those parts by the king, for they lay their cares, god among men, on him.

¹⁹And are your wives, your children and officers, your servants, the guilds, your counsellors, the townsmen, the country people, the kings under you and your own sons doing as you wish? ²⁰If a man's own self is under his own control, all these come under it, and every world with its guardian brings him tribute without slacking. ²¹The self is not made glad by the self, whether from another or from itself. I take it you have not got what you want: your face is discoloured with worry.