Gambling
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Gambling the idea
dyūta · gambling · prize-fighting
in the texts
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
Wagered games of chance regulated by the king, subject to taxation, supervision, and punishment for fraud.
3 The Punishment for Fraudulent Gambling Wicked men who play with false dice, and those who withhold the king's share, and those who cheat in counting—those gamblers are remembered as punishable.
27 Gambling Gambling was forbidden by Manu as it destroys truth, purity, and wealth;
1 The Livelihood of the Gambling-Hall Manager The gambling-hall manager is the collector there;
Kātyāyana Smṛti
Games of chance played for stakes, treated as a socially dangerous but revenue-generating activity requiring royal regulation.
The legal process in a gambling dispute depends on the word of the gaming-house keeper.
The gaming-house keeper (*sabhika*) should conduct the gambling and should himself give the king's share.
Because strife certainly arises from gambling, as poison from a serpent's mouth, therefore the king should suppress it in his domain, for it is a vice.