Note 25 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Vambéry, Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku Bilik, 118. This passage closely resembles the words attributed to Artaxerxes I, first king of the Sassanian Persian line: “There can be no power without an army, no army without money, no money without agriculture, and no agriculture without justice” (Rawlinson, Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, i. 61).