Chanakya's Niti (Rules)

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Chanakya Niti (Rules) for Woman, Man and marriage

Chanakya Neeties or Chanakya Niti are given in a total of 17 chapters. All the neethies are taken from internet, book and some website. Many of these make are really helpful and some are make us to think on the same.

Chanakya Niti (Ethics)

·        Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind, a woman, by her menses and a river by its flow.

·        Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

·         Courtesy should be learned from princes, the art of conversation from Pandit, lying should be learned from gamblers and deceitful ways should be learned from women.

·       It is ruinous to be familiar with the king, fire, the religious preceptor, and a woman. To be altogether indifferent of them is to be deprived of the opportunity to benefit ourselves. Hence our association with them must be from a safe distance.

·       We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.

·        Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men

·       The prostitute has to forsake a man who has no money, the subject a king that can not defend him, the birds a tree that bears no fruit, and the guests a house after they have finished their meals.

·        Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion; a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person; and a young wife is poison to an aged man.

·        Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

·        Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the flower girl.

·        The heart of a woman is not united; it is divided. While she is talking with one man, she looks lustfully at another and thinks fondly of a third in her heart. The fool, who fancies that a charming young lady loves him, becomes her slave and he dances like a shakuntala bird tied to a string.

·        When man has no strength left in him he becomes a sadhu, one without wealth acts like a brahmacari (Who don’t want to marry), a sick man behaves like a devotee of the Lord, and when a woman grows old she becomes devoted to her husband.

·        O lady, why are you gazing downward? Has something of yours fallen on the ground? (She replies) O fool, can you not understand the pearl of my youth has slipped away?

·        The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

·        The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a Brahman in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

·        A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

·        Trees on a river bank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

·        Friendship between equals’ flourishes, service under a king is respectable, it is good to be business-minded in public dealings, and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.

·        The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

·        She is a true wife who is clean, expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

·        Humbly bowing down before the almighty Lord, the Lord of the three worlds, I recite maxims of the science of political ethics selected from the various satraps.

·        That man who by the study of these maxims from the satras acquires a knowledge of the most celebrated principles of duty, and understands what ought and what ought not to be followed, and what is good and what is bad, is most excellent.

·        Therefore with an eye to the public good, I shall speak that which, when understood, will lead to an understanding of things in their proper perspective.

·        Getting only theoretical knowledge and having no experience of practical is likely to commit foolish mistake when engaged in actual works. So he shall employ as ministers such as are born of high family and possessed of wisdom, purity of purpose, bravery and loyal feelings in as much as ministerial appointments shall purely depend on qualifications.

·        When, without making provision for the maintenance of his wife and sons, that person embraces one self

·        Marriage precedes the other calls of life, the joint-performance of sacred duties (dedicated to God) by a man and a woman is known as marriage.

·        Means of subsistence or jewellery constitutes what is called the property of a woman. Means of subsistence valued at above two thousand shall be endowed. There is no limit to jewellery. It is no guilt for the wife to make use of this property in maintaining her son, her daughter-in-law or herself whenever her absent husband has made no provision for her maintenance.

·        When the enemy is fond of wealth or women, he may be charm at the sight of rich and beautiful widows brought before him with a plaint for the recovery of a deposit kept by them in the custody of one of their blood relation; and when he comes to meet with a woman at night as arranged, hidden spies may kill him with weapons or poison.

Chanakya Niti