What the Qualities are for
Having set out ātmasampad across several verses, Kāmandaka asks the obvious question: what does it produce? Verses 19 and 20 answer (in the 4th sarga), and the Jayamaṅgalā reads them together as a statement of how much personal excellence is worth.
इत्यादिगुणसम्पन्ने लोकयात्राविदि स्थिरे । निर्वृतः पितरीवास्ते यत्र लोकः स पार्थिवः ॥ १९ ॥
ityādiguṇasampanne lokayātrāvidi sthire | nirvṛtaḥ pitarīvāste yatra lokaḥ sa pārthivaḥ || 19 ||
That king in whom these and similar qualities are found, who knows the conduct of the world and is steady, under whom the people live contented as under a father: he is a true king.
आत्मसम्पद्गुणैः सम्यक् संयुक्तं युक्तकारिणम् । महेन्द्रमिव राजानं प्राप्य लोको विवर्द्धते ॥ २० ॥
ātmasampadguṇaiḥ samyak saṃyuktaṃ yuktakāriṇam | mahendram iva rājānaṃ prāpya loko vivarddhate || 20 ||
When the people obtain a king properly endowed with the qualities of personal excellence and acting with sound judgement, they prosper as those under Indra.
The measure has moved. Up to now the verses described the ruler. Here they describe the people, and judge the ruler by them.
Wise in the World, and Steady
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