The righteous ruler

Bhikkhus, whoever that righteous universal monarch, he too does not turn the wheel without a leadership. When this was said, a certain bhikkhu said thus to The Blessed One: Venerable sir, who is the leader of the righteous universal monarch that rules righteously?

The Blessed One said: Bhikkhu, it is the Teaching.

Here, bhikkhu, the righteous universal monarch, relying on the Teaching, honouring and venerating the righteous Teaching takes protection under the banner and the standard of the righteous Teaching to arrange the protection to his junior staff.

Again, bhikkhu, the righteous universal monarch, relying on the Teaching honouring and venerating the righteous Teaching takes protection under the banner and the standard of the righteous Teaching to arrange the protection to others starting from the warriors, ... re ... to the forces, to the Brahmin householders, to hamlets and states, to recluses and Brahmins and to wild beasts. Bhikkhu, the righteous universal monarch, relying on the Teaching honouring and venerating the righteous Teaching takes protection under the banner and the standard of the righteous Teaching to arrange the protection to his junior staff.

and the protection to others starting from the warriors, ... re ... to the forces, to the Brahmin householders, to hamlets and states, to recluses and Brahmins and to wild beasts. He turns the wheel righteously not to be stopped by any adversary human hand.

In the same manner bhikkhu, the Thus Gone One, worthy and rightfully enlightened, relying on the Teaching, honouring and venerating the righteous Teaching takes protection under the banner and the standard of the righteous Teaching to arrange the rightful protection to bhikkhus: says- Bodily actions like these should be practiced and bodily actions like these should not be practiced. Verbal actions like these should be practiced and verbal actions like these should not be practiced. Mental actions like these should be practiced and mental actions like these should not be practiced. A livelihood like this should be practiced and a livelihood like this should not be practiced. Villages and hamlets like these should be fostered and villages and hamlets like these should not be fostered.

Again, bhikkhu, the Thus Gone One, worthy and rightfully enlightened, relying on the Teaching, honouring and venerating the righteous Teaching takes protection under the banner and the standard of the righteous Teaching to arrange the rightful protection to bhikkhunis, ... re ... to male lay disciples, ... re ... to female lay disciples says: Bodily actions like these should be practiced and bodily actions like these should not be practiced. Verbal actions like these should be practiced and verbal actions like these should not be practiced. Mental actions like these should be practiced and mental actions like these should not be practiced. A livelihood like this should be practiced and a livelihood like this should not be practiced. Villages and hamlets like these should be fostered and villages and hamlets like these should not be fostered.

Bhikkhu, the Thus Gone One, worthy and rightfully enlightened, relying on the Teaching, honouring and venerating the righteous Teaching takes protection under the banner and the standard of the righteous Teaching, and having arranged the protection to bhikkhus, bhikkhunis, lay male disciples and lay female disciples, turns the noble, righteous wheel of the Teaching not to be stopped by anyone in the world not by a recluse, a Brahmin, a god, Māra or even Brahma.