{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe33/sbe3384.htm","path":"hin/sbe33/sbe3384.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe33/sbe3384.htm","text":"The Minor Law Books (SBE33), by Julius Jolly, [1889]\n1. 1 Gambling has been prohibited by Manu, because it destroys truth, honesty, and wealth. It has been permitted by other (legislators) when conducted so as to allow the king a share (of every stake).\n2. It shall take place under the superintendence of keepers of gaming-houses, as it serves the purpose of discovering thieves. The same rule has to be observed in bets on prize-fights with animals.\n3. 3 When birds, rams, deer or other (animals) are caused to fight against one another, after a wager has been laid, it is called betting on animals (sam\u00e2hvaya).\n4. 4 When any one is defeated in a prize-fight between two animals, the wager which has been laid shall be paid by the owner of the (defeated) animal.\n5. A wager (or game) shall be made in public; false gamblers shall be banished.\n6. 6 When there is a point at issue between the two parties (in a game or wager, other) gamblers shall examine (and decide) the matter; if they are enemies (of either party), the king shall decide the dispute.\n7. 7 One defeated in a secret game; or ignorant of the rules; or (defeated) by the use of false dice, or by deceit, though acquainted with the game, shall be released; and one who has lost his entire wealth in a game shall not be compelled to give the whole of it.\n8. The keeper of the gaming-house shall receive the stakes and pay the victorious gambler and the king; he shall also act as witness in a dispute, assisted by three other gamblers.\n9. Those wicked men who use false dice in a game, or rob the king of his due, or cheat by making false computations, are declared to be gamblers deserving punishment.\n385:1 XXVI, 1, 2. Viv. p. 318; V\u00eeram. pp. 721, 722. See Manu IX, 224.\n385:3 Viv. p. 317; Ratn. p. 610.\n386:4 4, 5. Viv. p. 318; V\u00eeram. p. 720.\n386:6 V\u00eeram. p. 720.\n386:7 7-9. Ratn. pp. 614-617.","title":"The Minor Law Books (SBE33): Fragments of Bri<...","type":"page"}