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विदुरनीतिः

Vidura Niti

Vyasa (within Mahabharata)4th Century BCE – 4th Century CENiti Shastra (embedded in Mahakavya)

The counsels of Vidura, the dharmic minister of Hastinapura, delivered to King Dhritarashtra on the eve of the Kurukshetra war. Distils the ethics of the Mahabharata into its most concentrated and practical form — statecraft, friendship, and truth to power.

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mātṛvatparadāreṣu
paradravyeṣu loṣṭhavat |
ātmavatsarvabhūteṣu
yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati ||

He who regards others' wives as mothers, others' wealth as clods of earth, and all beings as his own self — he alone truly sees.

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