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Duties of the king

Instruction & training can promote discipline only in a person capable of benefiting from them, people incapable of self-discipline do not benefit. Learning imparts discipline only to those who have the following mental facilities

1. Obedience to a teacher

2. Desire and ability to learn

3. Capacity to retain what is learnt

4. Understanding what is learnt, reflecting on it

5. Ability to make inferences by deliberating on the knowledge acquired.

Those who are devoid of such mental faculties are not benefited (by any amount of training) One who will be a king should acquire discipline and follow it strictly in life by learning the sciences from authoritative teachers.

If the king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is slack (and lazy in performing his duties), the subjects will also be lax and thereby eat into his wealth. Besides, a lazy king will easily fall into the hands of enemies. Hence the Rajarishi should himself always be energetic. He shall divide the day and the night, each into eight periods of one and half hours, and perform his duties as follows:

First 1½ hrs. after sunrise	Receive reports on defence, revenue, expenditure
Second 1½ hrs. after sunrise	Public audiences, to hear petitions of city & country people
Third 1½ hrs. after sunrise & Last 1½ hrs. before noon	Receive revenues & tributes; appoint ministers and other high officials & allot tasks to them
First 1½ hrs. after noon	Write letters & dispatches, confer with councillors, receive secret information from spies
Second 1½ hrs. after noon	Personal: recreation, time for contemplation
Third 1½ hrs. after noon & Last 1½ hrs. before sunset	Inspect & review forces; Consult with Chief of Defence

The day shall end with evening prayers.

First 1½ hrs. after sunset	Interview with secret agents
Second 1½ hrs. after sunset	Personal: bath, meals, study
Third & Fourth 1½ hrs. after sunset & First 1½ hrs. after midnight	Retire to the bed chamber to the sound of music, sleep
Second 1½ hrs. after midnight	After waking to the sound of music, meditate on political matters & on work to be done
Third 1½ hrs. after midnight	Consult with councilors, send out spies
Last 1½ hrs. before sunrise	Religious, household & personal duties, meetings with his teacher, adviser on rituals, purohitas, personal physician, chief cooks & astrologer