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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 21]
threatening;  aghān —all the culprits;  sva-sainya —of your soldiers;  caraṇa —by the feet;  kṣuṇṇam —trampled;  vepayan —causing to tremble;  maṇḍalam —the globe;  bhuvaḥ —of the earth;  vikarṣan —leading;  bṛhatīm —huge;  senām —army;  paryaṭasi —you roam about;  aṁśumān —the brilliant sun;  iva —like;  tadā —then;  eva —certainly;  setavaḥ —religious codes;  sarve —all;  vaṛṇa —of  vaṛṇas ;  āśrama —of  āśramas ;  nibandhanāḥ —obligations;  bhagavat —by the Lord;  racitāḥ —created;  rājan —O King;  bhidyeran —they would be broken;  bata —alas;  dasyubhiḥ —by rogues.
TRANSLATION
If you did not mount your victorious jeweled chariot, whose mere presence threatens culprits, if you did not produce fierce sounds by the twanging of your bow, and if you did not roam about the world like the brilliant sun, leading a huge army whose trampling feet cause the globe of the earth to tremble, then all the moral laws governing the  vaṛṇas  and  āśramas  created by the Lord Himself would be broken by the rogues and rascals.
PURPORT
It is the duty of a responsible king to protect the social and spiritual orders in human society. The spiritual orders are divided into four  āśramas — brahmacarya ,  gṛhastha ,  vānaprastha  and  sannyāsa —and the social orders, according to work and qualification, are made up of the  brāhmaṇas , the  kṣatriyas , the  vaiśyas  and the  śūdras . These social orders, according to different grades of work and qualification, are described in  Bhagavad-gītā . Unfortunately, for want of proper protection by responsible kings, the system of social and spiritual orders has now become a hereditary caste system. But this is not the actual system. Human society means that society which is making progress toward spiritual realization. The most advanced human society was known as  ārya ;  ārya  refers to those who are advancing. So the question is, “Which society is advancing?” Advancement does not mean creating material “necessities” unnecessarily and thus wasting human energy in aggravation over so-called material comforts. Real advancement is advancement towards spiritual realization, and the community which acted towards this end was known as the Āryan civilization. The intelligent men, the  brāhmaṇas , as exemplified by Kardama Muni, were engaged in advancing the spiritual cause, and  kṣatriyas  like Emperor Śvāyambhuva used to rule the country and insure that all facilities for spiritual realization were nicely provided. It is the duty of the king to travel all over the country and see that everything is in order. Indian