Gamblers
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
gamblers · fraudulent gamblers · the keeper of the gambling house
in the texts
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
Persons who gamble, distinguished as legitimate or punishable (fraudulent) according to method.
Those who play with false dice, base men, and those who abduct the king's wives, / astrologers and cheats, they are remembered as punishable gamblers.
fraudulent gamblers should be banished.
Nāradasmṛti
Participants in and operators of gambling, subject to a distinct set of procedural and punitive rules
The keeper of the gambling house should arrange the game and should pay what is due from it.
Playing with dice, leather strips, rods, and the like, which is done deceitfully, and betting with birds, is the topic of 'Gambling and Betting.
The king should banish from the gambling circle those sinful men who play with false dice, hanging a garland of dice around their necks, for this is remembered as their punishment.