“If the citizens are wealthy, the country is strong. The King's storehouse is his people.”

Quoted in page 178 of * Pradhan
Kumar L.
Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839
Concept Publishing Company
2012
9788180698132
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