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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 5]
the brahminical qualities. The  brāhmaṇas  Śaṇḍa and Amarka, being seminal sons of Śukrācārya, did not actually possess real brahminical qualifications, for they engaged as servants of Hiraṇyakaśipu. An actual  brāhmaṇa  is very much satisfied to see anyone, not to speak of his disciple, become a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Such  brāhmaṇas  are meant to satisfy the supreme master. A  brāhmaṇa  is strictly prohibited from becoming a servant of anyone else, for that is the business of dogs and  śūdras . A dog must satisfy his master, but a  brāhmaṇa  does not have to satisfy anyone; he is simply meant to satisfy Kṛṣṇa ( ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanam ). That is the real qualification of a  brāhmaṇa . Because Śaṇḍa and Amarka were seminal  brāhmaṇas  and had become servants of such a master as Hiraṇyakaśipu, they unnecessarily wanted to chastise Prahlāda Mahārāja.
TEXT 16
आनीयतामरे वेत्रमसाकमयशस्करः । कुलाङ्गारस्य दुर्बुद्धेश्वतुर्थोऽस्योदितो दमः ॥१६॥
ānīyatām are vetram asmākam ayaśaskaraḥ kulāngārasya durbuddheś caturtho 'syodito damaḥ
ānīyatām—let it be brought; are—oh; vetram—the stick; asmākam—of us; ayaśaskaraḥ—who is bringing defamation; kula-angārasya—of he who is like a cinder in the dynasty; durbuddheḥ—having bad intelligence; caturthaḥ—the fourth; asya—for him; uditaḥ—declared; damaḥ—punishment (the stick, argumentum ad baculum).
TRANSLATION
Oh, please bring me a stick! This Prahlāda is damaging our name and fame. Because of his bad intelligence, he has become like a cinder in the dynasty of the demons. Now he needs to be treated by the fourth of the four kinds of political diplomacy.
PURPORT
In political affairs, when a person disobediently agitates against the government, four principles are used to suppress him—legal orders,