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[Peter Wyzlic]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:34:06 -0400
  "Deshpande, Madhav" <mmdesh at UMICH.EDU> wrote:
> The full verse that I have heard many many times is:
> 
> lAlayet panca varSANi daza varSANi tADayet /
> prApte tu SoDaze varSe putre mitravad Acaret //
> 
> Off-hand I don't know of the textual source for the 
>verse.

It is listed in Boehtlingk's "Indische Sprüche", Vol. 3, 
No. 5848. Literary sources given there are e.g. in 
Canakya-Niti collections referenced as Can. 11 (after 
Haeberlin and Weber), Vrddha-Canakya (after a manuscript 
in Berlin).
A similar verse can be found in Boehtlingk's collection, 
No. 5747:
rAjavat paJca varSANi daza varSANi dAsavat /
...(the rest as above)

I am pretty sure that L. Sternbach in his 
Canakya-Niti-text-tradition gives lots of references more.

All the best
Peter Wyzlic

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