Suka said to King Parikshit: The kings too in those days were immersed in thoughts divine! They approached the hermits and sages in their retreats in order to discover from them the means of making their subjects happy and content. Often they invited them to their palaces and consulted them about ways and means of good government. Those were the days when there were sages with no attachment to self, and scholars with no craving for power. Such were the men who tended advice to the kings. As a consequence, there was no lack of food or clothing, of housing or good health, for people of the realm. All days were festival days. All doors were decorated with green festoons. The ruler felt that his most sacred duty was the fostering of his people’s welfare. The subjects too felt that the ruler was the heart of the body politic. They had full faith the he was as precious as their own hearts. They valued him as such, they revered him and paid him homage of gratitude. (RKRV Part I, p. 8)